Sure would save a lot of lives, materials and money. Oh, wait, they tried that on Star Trek and it ended in tears, until Captain Kirk shutdown the simulation.
So did he need to get any special clearance from the air traffic control in the area where he made his jump? Imagine that you are putting along in your Cessna, and this guy zooms by. It would scare the bejesus out of me.
"Uh, Zurich control, this is flight DE1073. You're not going to believe this, but a guy with wings and a jet pack just flew by me!"
"Here Zurich control, DE1073, you've been drinking, sir. Please land your plane as soon as possible."
Man, I am really impressed with private innovation like this. If this were a government project, it would still be held up in funding committee squabbles.
I would think that while you could easily receive the signal, transmitting back to the tower would be a problem since TV antennas were designed to be receive only.
My father designed TV transmission antennas for RCA (for instance, the one that was on the World Trade Center). He told me that, during construction, they tested the transmission antennas, by using them as receivers. My I visited the construction plant with him, there were a bunch of the sections of the World Trace Center array lying around. We went up on the test platform and he showed me that they had a line of sight to the spot in the distance where the test transmitter was located.
Don't you need to collect a number of signatures, or can you just propose something wacky, and it gets on? This one seems so ridiculous, that I'm surprised that it even needed to be voted on. So, how many folks in Denver signed, and thought that the city really needs this. I guess I would sign, just because the idea is such a hoot and a half.
"The Tell-Tail PC" and "The Cask of PC!" Does it make strange noises in the wall in the night, slowing driving the owner insane? Or does the owner go back fifty years later, and say, "May it rest in peace!" . . . ?
It is a production error, when God created the Universe. The Universe will be recalled eventually, when enough folks complain, and threaten with lawsuits. The biggest recall, like, ever!
This happens every time: When one company buys out another, they first reassure customers that it will be business as usual. Then they look for stuff to kill off, to get some savings to compensate for what they forked out to buy the company.
In the 80's, my sister, a chemical engineer, wrote control systems for oil refineries in APL. That scared the hell out of me, and I was happy that I live on a different continent. On the other hand, back in the 80's when I was studying at the university, APL was very popular with math students. I guess they were used to dealing with all those crazy symbols. The biggest problem was that the brilliant, but absent minded types would work for an hour, and quit without saving the workspace.
On another note, a prof told me that part of the reason IBM used that symbol set, was that it was trying to promote its "goofball" typewriter systems. For youse youngins', the typewriter had a golf ball sized "head" with all the symbols on it. It would rotate to appropriate symbol and whack that onto the paper. And the "goofball" had a simple clip that allowed you to easily and quickly change the "goofball." Hey, presto! New symbol set!
I suspect, that they want something from the parents, FTFA:
Wooten also disagreed with the lawyer's assertion that Juliet Breitman should not be held responsible because her mother was supervising the children at the time.
"A parent's presence alone does not give a reasonable child carte blanche to engage in risky behavior such as running across a street," Wooten wrote. He added that "the term 'supervising' is too vague to hold meaning here."
It sounds to me like another case of not-quite-up-to-snuff parental supervision. But anyway . . .
My cousin is a lawyer who litigates, and I have had numerous contacts with lawyers from my employer. The fact is, I will never get sued, because I have no money, or, what be considered by them as chump change. Now, my employer, legions of lawyers would drool at the chance to sue them. They chase the money, simple as that.
So if a 6 year old is getting sued . . . you can bet that lawyers have their sights on the parents' assests.
So if these laser pointers can do so much damage/destruction to pilots/planes... does this mean that a bunch of terrorists with cheap lasers can wreak havoc . . . ? Or did we just let the cat out of the bag . . . ?
Any military/commercial pilots out there? Are there any protective measures . . . ?
Any asshole pointing a laser at an airplane, should be tossed into a pool full of sharks.
My stove has levels that go up to 11. It's from Functionica. Whenever I get a visit from someone from the US, who has seen Spinal Tap, I show it to them and they laugh their asses off.
'I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,' he wrote."
So, like, were the Neanderthals permanently wasted, or what? Given that Ozzie Osbourne diet, I'm surprised that we found any fossiiled remains of the Neanderthalers.
Billions of habitable planets? Ok, but how high are the rent rates? Local schools satisfactory for your children? Criminality and local law enforcement? General life style enjoyment?
Please give me the details that count, on your billions of planets . . .
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The scientist obviously got their inspiration from this double feature: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/I_Drink_Your_Blood_I_Eat_Your_Skin.jpg
The rabbit itself though, is not radioactive.
So does that mean that my plans for generating electricity with a cold radioactive rabbit fusion reactor won't work?
I'll write it up anyway, maybe it will be good enough for an Ig Nobel.
Sure would save a lot of lives, materials and money. Oh, wait, they tried that on Star Trek and it ended in tears, until Captain Kirk shutdown the simulation.
So did he need to get any special clearance from the air traffic control in the area where he made his jump? Imagine that you are putting along in your Cessna, and this guy zooms by. It would scare the bejesus out of me.
"Uh, Zurich control, this is flight DE1073. You're not going to believe this, but a guy with wings and a jet pack just flew by me!"
"Here Zurich control, DE1073, you've been drinking, sir. Please land your plane as soon as possible."
Man, I am really impressed with private innovation like this. If this were a government project, it would still be held up in funding committee squabbles.
It's a pretty simple motion and would be a lot easier than hiding your CEO.
Wow! Hide & Seek, Corporate Edition!
Maybe we could settle corporate lawsuits with Hide & Seek contests, instead of trials? Up next, Nokia vs. Apple. Apple gets to hide first . . .
Nokia: "One, two, three, four . . . "
but in the rare event that we need to, we have the tools to take action
And, but in the non-rare event where we don't intend to, we have the tools to take action, by mistake.
"Yo! Who hit the kill switch?"
I would think that while you could easily receive the signal, transmitting back to the tower would be a problem since TV antennas were designed to be receive only.
My father designed TV transmission antennas for RCA (for instance, the one that was on the World Trade Center). He told me that, during construction, they tested the transmission antennas, by using them as receivers. My I visited the construction plant with him, there were a bunch of the sections of the World Trace Center array lying around. We went up on the test platform and he showed me that they had a line of sight to the spot in the distance where the test transmitter was located.
Cool stuff.
Don't you need to collect a number of signatures, or can you just propose something wacky, and it gets on? This one seems so ridiculous, that I'm surprised that it even needed to be voted on. So, how many folks in Denver signed, and thought that the city really needs this. I guess I would sign, just because the idea is such a hoot and a half.
"The Tell-Tail PC" and "The Cask of PC!" Does it make strange noises in the wall in the night, slowing driving the owner insane? Or does the owner go back fifty years later, and say, "May it rest in peace!" . . . ?
II dread to think what kind of robots Kim Jong Il would want to put in classrooms...
I was under the impression, that Kim Jong II transformed school children into robots, in his classrooms . . .
It is a production error, when God created the Universe. The Universe will be recalled eventually, when enough folks complain, and threaten with lawsuits. The biggest recall, like, ever!
This happens every time: When one company buys out another, they first reassure customers that it will be business as usual. Then they look for stuff to kill off, to get some savings to compensate for what they forked out to buy the company.
Ellison is not the only one who does this.
In the 80's, my sister, a chemical engineer, wrote control systems for oil refineries in APL. That scared the hell out of me, and I was happy that I live on a different continent. On the other hand, back in the 80's when I was studying at the university, APL was very popular with math students. I guess they were used to dealing with all those crazy symbols. The biggest problem was that the brilliant, but absent minded types would work for an hour, and quit without saving the workspace.
On another note, a prof told me that part of the reason IBM used that symbol set, was that it was trying to promote its "goofball" typewriter systems. For youse youngins', the typewriter had a golf ball sized "head" with all the symbols on it. It would rotate to appropriate symbol and whack that onto the paper. And the "goofball" had a simple clip that allowed you to easily and quickly change the "goofball." Hey, presto! New symbol set!
If I had that job, I would at least have to humor to say, "Cough, please!", when checking the balls.
Those 3 have been conspiring in secret to thin my wallet for the last 15 years. Nothing new.
That's probably what you wanted to say . . .
That is our future food.. everything else just wont cut it.
And I was hoping for Soylent Green . . .
I'm pretty sure that my bathtub could hold 4.5 million seeds
Yes, but the Global Seed Vault is not interested in sharing quarters with where you scrub your derriere . . .
Rare seeds with pubes . . . ick!
Following generations will not be amused.
What can they get from a 6 year old kid any ways?
I suspect, that they want something from the parents, FTFA:
Wooten also disagreed with the lawyer's assertion that Juliet Breitman should not be held responsible because her mother was supervising the children at the time. "A parent's presence alone does not give a reasonable child carte blanche to engage in risky behavior such as running across a street," Wooten wrote. He added that "the term 'supervising' is too vague to hold meaning here."
It sounds to me like another case of not-quite-up-to-snuff parental supervision. But anyway . . .
My cousin is a lawyer who litigates, and I have had numerous contacts with lawyers from my employer. The fact is, I will never get sued, because I have no money, or, what be considered by them as chump change. Now, my employer, legions of lawyers would drool at the chance to sue them. They chase the money, simple as that.
So if a 6 year old is getting sued . . . you can bet that lawyers have their sights on the parents' assests.
The fuel apparently expels a black carbon soot into the stratosphere when burned with nitrous oxide
You don't burn nitrous oxide, you just inhale it.
Is, like, our druggie-head culture going to Hell in a hand basket?
Oh, what a sorry state of the nation, when teenagers don't know how to do whippets anymore . . .
So if these laser pointers can do so much damage/destruction to pilots/planes ... does this mean that a bunch of terrorists with cheap lasers can wreak havoc . . . ? Or did we just let the cat out of the bag . . . ?
Any military/commercial pilots out there? Are there any protective measures . . . ?
Any asshole pointing a laser at an airplane, should be tossed into a pool full of sharks.
My stove has levels that go up to 11. It's from Functionica. Whenever I get a visit from someone from the US, who has seen Spinal Tap, I show it to them and they laugh their asses off.
'I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,' he wrote."
So, like, were the Neanderthals permanently wasted, or what? Given that Ozzie Osbourne diet, I'm surprised that we found any fossiiled remains of the Neanderthalers.
Customer: "Hi, I'd like one pound of ground beef, please."
Seller: "Um, can you tell me how much that is in Planck values of moles of silicon atoms?."
Billions of habitable planets? Ok, but how high are the rent rates? Local schools satisfactory for your children? Criminality and local law enforcement? General life style enjoyment?
Please give me the details that count, on your billions of planets . . .
And do they have an affordable DSL . . . ?
Bats seem to eat these pesky mosquito critters, so why don't we simply implement "pro-bat" policies in malaria infected countries?
Oh, malaria infected vampire bats biting and infecting folks? Just what we need for Halloween!