They have't started shit. So far, they're just TALKING shit.
Well yes and no. They did land a rover on the moon recently. It croaked during the first lunar night, but it worked up until then. So they are building hardware and successfully soft-landing it places that aren't Earth. They aren't random space nutters wishing out loud. They're engineers with a proven track record, orbiting multiple humans and landing a moon rover. Western media carefully forgets that China has engineers and astronauts with orbital experience, not just sub-orbital.
So far, that's the only religion where a God sacrificed himself for us, instead of the other way around. Because He loves us so much, he says we are worth that price. Do any other gods make that statement, and then back it up by sacrificing themselves, just so we would have the OPTION to choose a relationship with Him?
One, at least. The Hindu god Vishnu has incarnated as a human avatar (identical in fashion to Jesus) nine times. The two most revered avatars, Rama and Krishna, each came to Earth to rid the world of despotic kings. Having accomplished his task, Rama ruled the Earth for 11,000 years in perfect peace. At the end of his reign, he gave up his life in an effort of pure will. Krishna accomplished his task as an advisor to a mortal king, refusing to raise a weapon himself. Having accomplished his task, Krishna allowed himself to be killed by a hunter in the woods, because he believed his mortal brothers had become too arrogant. Rama's body was buried after he abandoned it. Krishna ascended into heaven in bodily form after his death, identically to Jesus.
1.1 billion followers of Hinduism believe in Vishnu and his repeated sacrifices of his mortal self for the good of humanity.
Go ahead and watch a bunch of it at random, with careful attention to the actors faces - they're rarely good actors after all, and their faces tend to expose their actual feelings if you're not focused on other things. The men are generally enjoying themselves...
I have, and I dispute your claim. In modern porn especially, you rarely see the man's face at all. On the rare occasions when you do, he inevitably looks distant and unengaged. Which is an accurate reflection of his mental state, because he has to do that in order to perform long enough for the camera. Furthermore, if you've ever attempted the positions commonly seen in porn, you will quickly discover that male porn actors are incredibly strong, and/or have extremely high tolerance for pain. The poses they are required to achieve and hold in order to maintain camera visibility are so physically demanding that most people aren't capable of assuming them for more than a few seconds at a time. Yes, there are positions that put a physical strain on women in porn too, but in general the greatest muscular strain is borne by the man (or men, as the case may be).
Porn is indeed a poor depiction of average sex, but not because it is particularly tilted toward one sex or the other. It's a poor depiction because most of what happens in porn requires nontrivial athletic ability on the part of the participants. Real sex is much more like Shakespeare's "beast with two backs" than it is like modern porn, because the beast allows precious little visibility to a spectator, and because the vast majority of the population isn't physically capable of porn sex.
...just as every generation have thought the "new" kind of music worse/more immoral than the thing they grew up with.
Hey, I'm GenX and I happen to like dubstep. Sure a higher percentage of it is crap, but that's because a higher percentage of everything is crap these days. There is no editorial control of any medium anymore. The upside of that is someone other than the anointed few can reach the masses. The fairly significant downside is that any old crap gets published.
I always thought the squeaky scratchy voice thing was intentional when a female singer did it. It goes with the jet black dyed hair and the skin tight black leather pants. She thought she was being edgy, or something. Maybe I give her too much credit. The audience evidently didn't agree with me.
My big question is economics. If the cars cost more than other cars, it's because they take more total human labor to make.
Ah, but exactly what is that labor being spent on? At the moment, Tesla vehicles cost more than other cars because they take more total human labor to make, because some substantial fraction of that labor is busy building a car factory and a battery factory. These are temporary expenses that will end, and relatively soon, in economic terms. Also, there is more human labor involved in building the battery packs than there will be in the future. Handling millions of 18650 batteries is a solution just crying out for automation. Robots excel at manipulating millions of identical things.
There is no reason to believe that electric vehicles will always cost more than internal combustion vehicles, and many reasons to expect they will not. Electric motors are manufactured entirely by robots, and are far simpler than modern internal combustion engines. Battery packs will be manufactured entirely by robots, if they aren't already. (I know that other grid-scale energy storage companies using batteries still build packs by hand. I don't know what Tesla does.) Finally, a battery manufacturing plant is smaller, cheaper, easier to build, easier to manage, and easier to contain environmentally than an oil refinery. To say nothing of the fact that mining for lithium is cheaper, safer, and less politically fraught than extracting oil.
I believe that the vast majority of Slashdot readers will see a time when a battery electric vehicle capable of 300 miles per charge sells for $12,000USD, and it's a car people want to buy.
If a person wanted to buy all those ebooks directly from the publisher, set up a digital lockout system to prevent simultanous viewing (to better approximate the book being physically checked out) do you suppose these author's guild types would consider the creation of such a digital library above board?
Doesn't matter if they like it or not. Libraries have already done this. My local library has had exactly such a system in place for years now. The Author's Guild, Inc. stays the hell away from them. County library systems know this ground very well and very much have the will of the people on their side.
And of course, they're poor. Unlike Google.
That's all you need to know about this now dead suit.
By this I mean, are they being injured by this law? If not, then it seems like the courts might throw this out. But if they have been injured, then admitting that they have been injured is tantamount to admitting that they have received such orders, which they are expressly not allowed to do.
Almost. The overlords apparently made a tiny mistake, and put sunset clauses on a handful of those secrecy orders. Most of them never expire, but some of them have, and are therefore legal to complain about publicly.
Think about what you just said. You want to control the work of others, completely, via Legislation. Are you REALLY comfortable with that?
You're already marked Troll, and probably you are, because you can't be as stupid as you sound. But I'll bite anyway.
Yes. Yes. I am. I'm really really comfortable with that. See, there are assholes in the world who think it's fun to break capitalism. Some of them might even have pretentious names resembling that of Christian demi-gods. I'm perfectly comfortable with controlling everything that kind of asshole does, with legislation, backed up by jack-booted thugs. Because otherwise those assholes will fuck it up for the rest of us. And that's not cool.
Are you willing to let others decide what you can do with the fruits of YOUR labor simply because they don't like how you use/sell them?
Others already decide what to do with the fruits of my precious labor. I have to assign my copyright to the company as a condition of employment. Like 90% of all programmers in the world. So yeah, I'm fine with that. I am compensated for my labor. Just as ISPs are. But I'm not allowed to be a dick about who gets to use my software, and they aren't allowed to be a dick about who gets to use their hardware.
The only real skill she has, because its the only one shes ever had to develop, is a very large ability in being able to market and promote herself.
Does she even have that skill? I have a hard time seeing it, because I actively dislike her. She thinks she can lie as much as her husband, but Slick Willie is much slipperier than she'll ever be. I voted for someone else in my state's primary. (Which I would have done even if I liked her. No dynasties.)
Bush41 paid good money for those degrees, so Junior was damn well going to get them, whether he did any meaningful coursework or not. Junior was not at Harvard or Yale to learn anything academic. He was there to meet the children of the rich and powerful. Poor people's kids who make it into Harvard and Yale have to study hard. Rich people's kids who buy into Harvard and Yale have to party hard. That's why they're there.
This garbage you right-leaners continually toss around about Bush Jr. being an academic whiz kid just shows how naïve you really are.
Top Secret is one of the levels of classified, and... Clinton... allowed all levels, up to Top Secret, be accessible to unauthorized persons.
Prove it.
You can't. From the look of it, the FBI can't either. So the whole thing will go away.
For that matter, "accessible to unauthorized persons" and "accessed by unauthorized persons" are treated vastly differently. If it's only the former and not the latter, again she walks.
I have no interest in seeing Hillary Clinton as president, and I voted for someone else in my state's primary, but no one is going to knock her out of the race with her email server. It's just not happening.
Treating the information as SECRET means that it may only be transported by courier or over SIPRNet. This is an unreasonable precaution to take for material that is merely sensitive.
It's fair to point out that with the proper packaging, all US mail carriers are qualified couriers to carry SECRET materials. And we're not talking a steel box with a 12 digit combination lock, either. Plain brown paper is the outer layer, for those who aren't familiar with the procedures.
Basically, nothing End-of-the-World-ish is ever classified SECRET. Nearly all of it, if disclosed, falls into the category of "gee, that's awkward." And it's still too high a classification level for 99.999% of all government paper.
The difference is that NASA is requiring SLS to build a man rated design, where the Air Force pencil whipped SpaceX's certification after the fact with inadequate engineering data to support it.
Nobody has "pencil whipped" anything. Neither Falcon 9 nor Dragon are man-rated yet. They're more than a year away from man-rating, with their typical optimistic schedule. More likely it will be a year and a half to two years yet.
I noticed there is a strong groupthink on Slashdot that is against hydrogen fuel cell technology. And one of the (blatantly incorrect) statements is that hydrogen is impossible to store.
Storing highly compressed hydrogen is, in fact, very difficult. The VentureStar/X-33 program failed specifically because of how difficult it is to store hydrogen. This is not a theoretical problem. Lockheed-Martin spent millions trying to make it behave safely, and failed. In a car, you can get away with things that are far too dangerous in an aircraft. In an aircraft, fuel tanks are also structural. The stresses on parts directly exposed to hydrogen are far higher.
Birds confuse the shiny panels for water and collide with them thinking they'd get a soft slash instead.
Is that really a thing? I find it very hard to believe. My neighbor down the street has had a full complement of solar panels on his roof for years now, and I've never yet seen a wounded ducked flapping around in his courtyard.
A certain kind of photovoltaic is a very dark color and not nearly as reflective, these can also confuse the birds and lead them to collide with them in flight.
This I don't believe at all. If it were true, every black car would be surrounded by injured birds. Or every black asphalt roof, if we're talking really matte. Sounds like nonsense.
Even if both are true, there's no way in hell that even if we transition to 100% photovoltaic power that accidental bird collisions will account for anything like the billion birds that domestic cats kill every single year. It will be about six orders of magnitude less.
2. Make the communications channel both jam resistant and secure.
Since when did anybody do that? If we can't be arsed to encrypt Predator communications, what makes you think the shitty little hand carry toy is going to have it?
You should see the kind of boxes that fucking cable sets are carried around in. They'd make adequate cover in a firefight.
#Pelican4Life
There probably isn't such a hash tag, but there should be. Though after the C2 Rewire project, I'd lugged around enough of those cases full of cable sets to last me a lifetime.
Simultaneously great and not great. I've been using X-10 components every single day since 1999, and 99.9% of the time, they Just Work. The other 0.1% of the time, I have to fiddle with it. Sometimes I can just retry a command. Other times, I have to change antennae positions because the radio environment in the neighborhood has changed. So X-10 works great, but it's always a little bit marginal. It doesn't take much to tip it over the edge into not working. And of course there's zero security of any kind, so if the neighbor kids knew what X-10 was, they could turn my lights off on me.
Specifically, I wonder about the North American practice of wiring houses as two separate 110 volt "buses" 180 degrees out of phase. Doesn't that mean that an X10 controller on one "bus" can't talk to a device on the other "bus" unless a 220 volt device like a clothes drier or electric stove happens to be running?
Correct, the two legs are generally inaccessible to each other. I have a receiver on each one, in consequence.
No clothes, no food, no money for a hairdresser, nothing.
Donald Trump does not pay for a hairdresser. The Hair is an independent, self-regulating entity. I wouldn't try to cut it, if I were you. It wouldn't like that.
It will last. The Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux du Quebec has the power to regulate this stuff and the Canadian government cannot do anything about provincial rules like this.
It won't last. Canada is a WTO member. Antigua will sue and win, again.
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They have't started shit. So far, they're just TALKING shit.
Well yes and no. They did land a rover on the moon recently. It croaked during the first lunar night, but it worked up until then. So they are building hardware and successfully soft-landing it places that aren't Earth. They aren't random space nutters wishing out loud. They're engineers with a proven track record, orbiting multiple humans and landing a moon rover. Western media carefully forgets that China has engineers and astronauts with orbital experience, not just sub-orbital.
So far, that's the only religion where a God sacrificed himself for us, instead of the other way around. Because He loves us so much, he says we are worth that price. Do any other gods make that statement, and then back it up by sacrificing themselves, just so we would have the OPTION to choose a relationship with Him?
One, at least. The Hindu god Vishnu has incarnated as a human avatar (identical in fashion to Jesus) nine times. The two most revered avatars, Rama and Krishna, each came to Earth to rid the world of despotic kings. Having accomplished his task, Rama ruled the Earth for 11,000 years in perfect peace. At the end of his reign, he gave up his life in an effort of pure will. Krishna accomplished his task as an advisor to a mortal king, refusing to raise a weapon himself. Having accomplished his task, Krishna allowed himself to be killed by a hunter in the woods, because he believed his mortal brothers had become too arrogant. Rama's body was buried after he abandoned it. Krishna ascended into heaven in bodily form after his death, identically to Jesus.
1.1 billion followers of Hinduism believe in Vishnu and his repeated sacrifices of his mortal self for the good of humanity.
Go ahead and watch a bunch of it at random, with careful attention to the actors faces - they're rarely good actors after all, and their faces tend to expose their actual feelings if you're not focused on other things. The men are generally enjoying themselves...
I have, and I dispute your claim. In modern porn especially, you rarely see the man's face at all. On the rare occasions when you do, he inevitably looks distant and unengaged. Which is an accurate reflection of his mental state, because he has to do that in order to perform long enough for the camera. Furthermore, if you've ever attempted the positions commonly seen in porn, you will quickly discover that male porn actors are incredibly strong, and/or have extremely high tolerance for pain. The poses they are required to achieve and hold in order to maintain camera visibility are so physically demanding that most people aren't capable of assuming them for more than a few seconds at a time. Yes, there are positions that put a physical strain on women in porn too, but in general the greatest muscular strain is borne by the man (or men, as the case may be).
Porn is indeed a poor depiction of average sex, but not because it is particularly tilted toward one sex or the other. It's a poor depiction because most of what happens in porn requires nontrivial athletic ability on the part of the participants. Real sex is much more like Shakespeare's "beast with two backs" than it is like modern porn, because the beast allows precious little visibility to a spectator, and because the vast majority of the population isn't physically capable of porn sex.
...just as every generation have thought the "new" kind of music worse/more immoral than the thing they grew up with.
Hey, I'm GenX and I happen to like dubstep. Sure a higher percentage of it is crap, but that's because a higher percentage of everything is crap these days. There is no editorial control of any medium anymore. The upside of that is someone other than the anointed few can reach the masses. The fairly significant downside is that any old crap gets published.
And they didn't have to worry about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... turning into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I always thought the squeaky scratchy voice thing was intentional when a female singer did it. It goes with the jet black dyed hair and the skin tight black leather pants. She thought she was being edgy, or something. Maybe I give her too much credit. The audience evidently didn't agree with me.
My big question is economics. If the cars cost more than other cars, it's because they take more total human labor to make.
Ah, but exactly what is that labor being spent on? At the moment, Tesla vehicles cost more than other cars because they take more total human labor to make, because some substantial fraction of that labor is busy building a car factory and a battery factory. These are temporary expenses that will end, and relatively soon, in economic terms. Also, there is more human labor involved in building the battery packs than there will be in the future. Handling millions of 18650 batteries is a solution just crying out for automation. Robots excel at manipulating millions of identical things.
There is no reason to believe that electric vehicles will always cost more than internal combustion vehicles, and many reasons to expect they will not. Electric motors are manufactured entirely by robots, and are far simpler than modern internal combustion engines. Battery packs will be manufactured entirely by robots, if they aren't already. (I know that other grid-scale energy storage companies using batteries still build packs by hand. I don't know what Tesla does.) Finally, a battery manufacturing plant is smaller, cheaper, easier to build, easier to manage, and easier to contain environmentally than an oil refinery. To say nothing of the fact that mining for lithium is cheaper, safer, and less politically fraught than extracting oil.
I believe that the vast majority of Slashdot readers will see a time when a battery electric vehicle capable of 300 miles per charge sells for $12,000USD, and it's a car people want to buy.
If a person wanted to buy all those ebooks directly from the publisher, set up a digital lockout system to prevent simultanous viewing (to better approximate the book being physically checked out) do you suppose these author's guild types would consider the creation of such a digital library above board?
Doesn't matter if they like it or not. Libraries have already done this. My local library has had exactly such a system in place for years now. The Author's Guild, Inc. stays the hell away from them. County library systems know this ground very well and very much have the will of the people on their side.
And of course, they're poor. Unlike Google.
That's all you need to know about this now dead suit.
By this I mean, are they being injured by this law? If not, then it seems like the courts might throw this out. But if they have been injured, then admitting that they have been injured is tantamount to admitting that they have received such orders, which they are expressly not allowed to do.
Almost. The overlords apparently made a tiny mistake, and put sunset clauses on a handful of those secrecy orders. Most of them never expire, but some of them have, and are therefore legal to complain about publicly.
Think about what you just said. You want to control the work of others, completely, via Legislation. Are you REALLY comfortable with that?
You're already marked Troll, and probably you are, because you can't be as stupid as you sound. But I'll bite anyway.
Yes. Yes. I am. I'm really really comfortable with that. See, there are assholes in the world who think it's fun to break capitalism. Some of them might even have pretentious names resembling that of Christian demi-gods. I'm perfectly comfortable with controlling everything that kind of asshole does, with legislation, backed up by jack-booted thugs. Because otherwise those assholes will fuck it up for the rest of us. And that's not cool.
Are you willing to let others decide what you can do with the fruits of YOUR labor simply because they don't like how you use/sell them?
Others already decide what to do with the fruits of my precious labor. I have to assign my copyright to the company as a condition of employment. Like 90% of all programmers in the world. So yeah, I'm fine with that. I am compensated for my labor. Just as ISPs are. But I'm not allowed to be a dick about who gets to use my software, and they aren't allowed to be a dick about who gets to use their hardware.
As it should be.
The only real skill she has, because its the only one shes ever had to develop, is a very large ability in being able to market and promote herself.
Does she even have that skill? I have a hard time seeing it, because I actively dislike her. She thinks she can lie as much as her husband, but Slick Willie is much slipperier than she'll ever be. I voted for someone else in my state's primary. (Which I would have done even if I liked her. No dynasties.)
Bush43 had degrees from BOTH Harvard and Yale...
Bush41 paid good money for those degrees, so Junior was damn well going to get them, whether he did any meaningful coursework or not. Junior was not at Harvard or Yale to learn anything academic. He was there to meet the children of the rich and powerful. Poor people's kids who make it into Harvard and Yale have to study hard. Rich people's kids who buy into Harvard and Yale have to party hard. That's why they're there.
This garbage you right-leaners continually toss around about Bush Jr. being an academic whiz kid just shows how naïve you really are.
Top Secret is one of the levels of classified, and ... Clinton ... allowed all levels, up to Top Secret, be accessible to unauthorized persons.
Prove it.
You can't. From the look of it, the FBI can't either. So the whole thing will go away.
For that matter, "accessible to unauthorized persons" and "accessed by unauthorized persons" are treated vastly differently. If it's only the former and not the latter, again she walks.
I have no interest in seeing Hillary Clinton as president, and I voted for someone else in my state's primary, but no one is going to knock her out of the race with her email server. It's just not happening.
Treating the information as SECRET means that it may only be transported by courier or over SIPRNet. This is an unreasonable precaution to take for material that is merely sensitive.
It's fair to point out that with the proper packaging, all US mail carriers are qualified couriers to carry SECRET materials. And we're not talking a steel box with a 12 digit combination lock, either. Plain brown paper is the outer layer, for those who aren't familiar with the procedures.
Basically, nothing End-of-the-World-ish is ever classified SECRET. Nearly all of it, if disclosed, falls into the category of "gee, that's awkward." And it's still too high a classification level for 99.999% of all government paper.
Err forgot to click the box. Guess I should pepper my angus
A good steak doesn't need any pepper.
The difference is that NASA is requiring SLS to build a man rated design, where the Air Force pencil whipped SpaceX's certification after the fact with inadequate engineering data to support it.
Nobody has "pencil whipped" anything. Neither Falcon 9 nor Dragon are man-rated yet. They're more than a year away from man-rating, with their typical optimistic schedule. More likely it will be a year and a half to two years yet.
I noticed there is a strong groupthink on Slashdot that is against hydrogen fuel cell technology. And one of the (blatantly incorrect) statements is that hydrogen is impossible to store.
Storing highly compressed hydrogen is, in fact, very difficult. The VentureStar/X-33 program failed specifically because of how difficult it is to store hydrogen. This is not a theoretical problem. Lockheed-Martin spent millions trying to make it behave safely, and failed. In a car, you can get away with things that are far too dangerous in an aircraft. In an aircraft, fuel tanks are also structural. The stresses on parts directly exposed to hydrogen are far higher.
Birds confuse the shiny panels for water and collide with them thinking they'd get a soft slash instead.
Is that really a thing? I find it very hard to believe. My neighbor down the street has had a full complement of solar panels on his roof for years now, and I've never yet seen a wounded ducked flapping around in his courtyard.
A certain kind of photovoltaic is a very dark color and not nearly as reflective, these can also confuse the birds and lead them to collide with them in flight.
This I don't believe at all. If it were true, every black car would be surrounded by injured birds. Or every black asphalt roof, if we're talking really matte. Sounds like nonsense.
Even if both are true, there's no way in hell that even if we transition to 100% photovoltaic power that accidental bird collisions will account for anything like the billion birds that domestic cats kill every single year. It will be about six orders of magnitude less.
2. Make the communications channel both jam resistant and secure.
Since when did anybody do that? If we can't be arsed to encrypt Predator communications, what makes you think the shitty little hand carry toy is going to have it?
You should see the kind of boxes that fucking cable sets are carried around in. They'd make adequate cover in a firefight.
#Pelican4Life
There probably isn't such a hash tag, but there should be. Though after the C2 Rewire project, I'd lugged around enough of those cases full of cable sets to last me a lifetime.
Not that I need it, but how well does X10 work?
Simultaneously great and not great. I've been using X-10 components every single day since 1999, and 99.9% of the time, they Just Work. The other 0.1% of the time, I have to fiddle with it. Sometimes I can just retry a command. Other times, I have to change antennae positions because the radio environment in the neighborhood has changed. So X-10 works great, but it's always a little bit marginal. It doesn't take much to tip it over the edge into not working. And of course there's zero security of any kind, so if the neighbor kids knew what X-10 was, they could turn my lights off on me.
Specifically, I wonder about the North American practice of wiring houses as two separate 110 volt "buses" 180 degrees out of phase. Doesn't that mean that an X10 controller on one "bus" can't talk to a device on the other "bus" unless a 220 volt device like a clothes drier or electric stove happens to be running?
Correct, the two legs are generally inaccessible to each other. I have a receiver on each one, in consequence.
No clothes, no food, no money for a hairdresser, nothing.
Donald Trump does not pay for a hairdresser. The Hair is an independent, self-regulating entity. I wouldn't try to cut it, if I were you. It wouldn't like that.
...and they don't have bird killing windmills and solar panels.
If your photovoltaic panels are killing birds, you probably wired grid power to the frames. Don't do that.
According to duckduckgo the word is pravda, written as . Google translate says the same.
It's a joke, son.</FoghornLeghorn>
The paper of record in Russia is named Pravda, and it's well known to print anything but.
Yeah sorry, we are changing the rules to keep you all out.
Damn. And here I was hoping I could H1B into Canada.
It will last. The Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux du Quebec has the power to regulate this stuff and the Canadian government cannot do anything about provincial rules like this.
It won't last. Canada is a WTO member. Antigua will sue and win, again.