It is meant to be installed with anchors. It would remain stuck to the wall and stop shrapnel fine without them, but when the wall bows, the tape would bow with it, causing a collapse. The anchors make the tape provide tension that keeps the wall up. Here's a video about the stuff that will clarify.
It'll be pretty awesome when this actually works, and becomes popular, and inflation adjusts for the fact that thousands of people who have done nothing but use electricity for a century or two all have an amount of money equal to a sizable life insurance payout.:V
"These elements?" Fuck your shit. Those elements are people who are trying to win their own freedom of expression from a giant lobby who want to keep it from them for no reason other than that they can. The first amendment protects your speech from the government. Your speech should not be protected from the consequences of other citizens hearing it. The businessman expresses himself, and his customers express themselves by taking their money elsewhere.
In many types of games, this is a good idea. Puzzlers, platformers, shmups, and I'm sure others can all benefit from this approach.
Racing games are the antithesis of this concept. They're all about practicing something until you can do it just right. This is why rubberbanding causes so much frustration, and why it needs to go away.
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Big Pharma, in particular the guys pushing psych meds, are certainly not the most trustworthy guys around. They frequently play very stupid games with patents and advertisement. They are not, however, releasing inert garbage. The new stuff is, like anything else, based on conceptual refinement of the old stuff, which worked before this giant public marketing machine was in place. The relationship between thought process and chemical mechanism is so nuanced that it is often hard to tell which one it's more effective to try to change in any given patient, and as a treatment affects a person, one will change the other, so that treatment must be modified. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: in psychiatry, you can do the most rigorous and exacting studies possible, with the tightest controls, and your results will still be equivalent to a mildly educated guess in any other field. This doesn't mean that the science is bad, the drugs are useless, or the researchers are corrupt and lazy. They are working with data that changes when watched by its very nature. Sometimes they can only make the subtlest change vs. placebo, but that is what they need to do in many cases where a person has a stubborn problem with brain chemistry.
That guy seems to be ignoring the fact that the placebo effect, being partly psychosomatic, is something that by nature will cloud the results of testing psychiatric drugs as people become more trusting of their effectiveness in general.
This post sucks, but it reminds me of several stories I've read (I think one of them might've been here) about people inheriting personality traits from donor organs. I have no idea if at this point it's just a collection of anecdotes or if there has been an actual study on it, but it'd be kind of weird to think that a little old lady with ten cats and a bum ticker could get a heart that turns her into a serial rapist.
The problem with this is that the ridiculous-sounding nightmare horror story opponents of this spout would probably actually happen: suicide and murder would become even more popular among the poor than they already are, and they'd wind up being organ farms for the rich. The "easy fix" you're probably going to come back with, that we not pay out for suicides similar to how insurance doesn't, just means that we're either wasting the organs, or making the poor into slave organ farms.
It feels weird to keep replying to myself, but a techie friend of mine has pointed out that flash memory does degrade over time even when not in use, although the rate is slow enough that any corruption should be manageable if you still choose that. If you don't want to take the risk, we determined that a USB hard drive would be the best alternative. As with the flash, the plug itself is definitely going to be able to get stuck in something, and if for whatever weird reason the drive itself won't play with future hardware, then it won't be that hard to find a retro machine that will still talk to it. If all else fails, the poor girl can just pay to have the data recovered professionally. Expensive, but those platters aren't just going to rot away, so everything will be on there.
Wish I'd thought of this while writing the first post, but another benefit of using a flash stick is that, if you're only writing stuff to it once and then sticking it in a box, it'll be more durable than an optical disc of any kind. Discs can melt, warp, get scratches, crack, and some writeables seem to have crappy, degradable media.
USB is like... the best standard ever. Just have everyone throw everything on a flash stick. In 16 years, if there is not just yet another faster version of it that is backward compatible with all the old ones, then you can personally come over here and slap me with a rolled up newspaper.
The files are a little tougher, but it's hard to imagine.jpg,.mpg, and.mp3 ever not being supported. Those are standards which are also more likely to be updated than ditched, I think.
Because the stuff that's "chasing them away" is the same stuff that still nominally keeps the American people from being totally subjugated and destitute like the Chinese and Indians are. A corporation has one goal, by law: make money for the shareholders. Once one has grown so large that the vast majority of its competitors are insignificant, the best way for it to do that is to rape the worker and the consumer as hard is it can. Companies aren't going to stop leaving the US until we are so broken by their flight that we are forced to become fascist. We are doomed to this fate. There is nothing we can do about it anymore. But it still bothers me that you're cheering it on with your suggestion that the whole thing is the fault of interference with the free market.
What about when we're between Jupiter and the sun? Then the pull from each would put us pretty much square in the path of whatever's coming, wouldn't it? No wonder people are so scared of syzygies.
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This would've been modded "funny" if this were three years ago and we were talking about a picture of W as a monkey.
The irony is that the joke is boring no matter who it's pointed at.
He resigned rather than stand up for his right to talk the way he wants when he's not on the job? Real ballsy.
It is meant to be installed with anchors. It would remain stuck to the wall and stop shrapnel fine without them, but when the wall bows, the tape would bow with it, causing a collapse. The anchors make the tape provide tension that keeps the wall up. Here's a video about the stuff that will clarify.
It'll be pretty awesome when this actually works, and becomes popular, and inflation adjusts for the fact that thousands of people who have done nothing but use electricity for a century or two all have an amount of money equal to a sizable life insurance payout. :V
I think you mean ACTA speaks louder than words. :V
I've always known I was born in the wrong time. Now I know what the right time is.
"These elements?" Fuck your shit. Those elements are people who are trying to win their own freedom of expression from a giant lobby who want to keep it from them for no reason other than that they can. The first amendment protects your speech from the government. Your speech should not be protected from the consequences of other citizens hearing it. The businessman expresses himself, and his customers express themselves by taking their money elsewhere.
Why make a robocopter if it is not also a dildocopter?
In many types of games, this is a good idea. Puzzlers, platformers, shmups, and I'm sure others can all benefit from this approach.
Racing games are the antithesis of this concept. They're all about practicing something until you can do it just right. This is why rubberbanding causes so much frustration, and why it needs to go away.
Comcast Gold PCGuard+ Express Pro has detected a significant overnight spike in your network usage that suggests your PC may be infected with a virus. This process has been identified as utorrent.exe. It is recommended that you delete all files related to this program immediately to keep your personal information secure.
Big Pharma, in particular the guys pushing psych meds, are certainly not the most trustworthy guys around. They frequently play very stupid games with patents and advertisement. They are not, however, releasing inert garbage. The new stuff is, like anything else, based on conceptual refinement of the old stuff, which worked before this giant public marketing machine was in place. The relationship between thought process and chemical mechanism is so nuanced that it is often hard to tell which one it's more effective to try to change in any given patient, and as a treatment affects a person, one will change the other, so that treatment must be modified. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: in psychiatry, you can do the most rigorous and exacting studies possible, with the tightest controls, and your results will still be equivalent to a mildly educated guess in any other field. This doesn't mean that the science is bad, the drugs are useless, or the researchers are corrupt and lazy. They are working with data that changes when watched by its very nature. Sometimes they can only make the subtlest change vs. placebo, but that is what they need to do in many cases where a person has a stubborn problem with brain chemistry.
That guy seems to be ignoring the fact that the placebo effect, being partly psychosomatic, is something that by nature will cloud the results of testing psychiatric drugs as people become more trusting of their effectiveness in general.
Wouldn't this quickly take enough disk space to be easily noticeable?
Problem: Overfishing
Problem: Garbage in the water
Solution: Pay fisherman to catch garbage
http://xkcd.com/327/ That fuckin' kid. :|
This post sucks, but it reminds me of several stories I've read (I think one of them might've been here) about people inheriting personality traits from donor organs. I have no idea if at this point it's just a collection of anecdotes or if there has been an actual study on it, but it'd be kind of weird to think that a little old lady with ten cats and a bum ticker could get a heart that turns her into a serial rapist.
The problem with this is that the ridiculous-sounding nightmare horror story opponents of this spout would probably actually happen: suicide and murder would become even more popular among the poor than they already are, and they'd wind up being organ farms for the rich. The "easy fix" you're probably going to come back with, that we not pay out for suicides similar to how insurance doesn't, just means that we're either wasting the organs, or making the poor into slave organ farms.
If it doesn't, the data can still be recovered. I already said that. :|
Bit rot on a hard drive takes ten times as long. It's going to last seventeen years.
It feels weird to keep replying to myself, but a techie friend of mine has pointed out that flash memory does degrade over time even when not in use, although the rate is slow enough that any corruption should be manageable if you still choose that. If you don't want to take the risk, we determined that a USB hard drive would be the best alternative. As with the flash, the plug itself is definitely going to be able to get stuck in something, and if for whatever weird reason the drive itself won't play with future hardware, then it won't be that hard to find a retro machine that will still talk to it. If all else fails, the poor girl can just pay to have the data recovered professionally. Expensive, but those platters aren't just going to rot away, so everything will be on there.
Wish I'd thought of this while writing the first post, but another benefit of using a flash stick is that, if you're only writing stuff to it once and then sticking it in a box, it'll be more durable than an optical disc of any kind. Discs can melt, warp, get scratches, crack, and some writeables seem to have crappy, degradable media.
USB is like... the best standard ever. Just have everyone throw everything on a flash stick. In 16 years, if there is not just yet another faster version of it that is backward compatible with all the old ones, then you can personally come over here and slap me with a rolled up newspaper.
.jpg, .mpg, and .mp3 ever not being supported. Those are standards which are also more likely to be updated than ditched, I think.
The files are a little tougher, but it's hard to imagine
Because the stuff that's "chasing them away" is the same stuff that still nominally keeps the American people from being totally subjugated and destitute like the Chinese and Indians are. A corporation has one goal, by law: make money for the shareholders. Once one has grown so large that the vast majority of its competitors are insignificant, the best way for it to do that is to rape the worker and the consumer as hard is it can. Companies aren't going to stop leaving the US until we are so broken by their flight that we are forced to become fascist. We are doomed to this fate. There is nothing we can do about it anymore. But it still bothers me that you're cheering it on with your suggestion that the whole thing is the fault of interference with the free market.
Is he going to blubber like this every time it happens from now on? Or do you think this one's got him covered?
What about when we're between Jupiter and the sun? Then the pull from each would put us pretty much square in the path of whatever's coming, wouldn't it? No wonder people are so scared of syzygies.