The name is a hoot and a half: "Trust and Safety Council". This sounds like something I would expect to see in a dictatorship, like North Korea, the former East Germany, Soviet Russia or a fistful of Middle East Sheikdoms.
Let's just call it what it really is: "Board of Censorship".
Actually, Mark Zuckerberg was the one who cast the spell.
He was pissed off at India for blocking his free Internet, so he used his Weapon of Mass Destruction. He doesn't have an ICBM with an H-bomb, like North Korea, but he has something more powerful and deadly!
On the other hand, as the jet fuel is consumed the weight decreases. Batteries stay the same weight for the entire flight.
An interesting point . . . when a jet needs to make an emergency landing with full tanks, it will ditch the fuel before attempting a landing, because of the fire danger. Will this be necessary with Li-Air? Could there be a danger of a fire if the plane needs to land under "extraordinary circumstances? Like, no landing gear?
So will a Li-Air plane need to have a mechanism to ditch the batteries?
And if the batteries land in my backyard, can I keep them . . . ?
They are keeping low lest they come into the sites of the Native Hawaiian groups. UH has some brilliant researchers who do work on marine life and volcanoes. They want to pursue their own research. If they dare to put their fingers into the TMT hornet's nest, they will be hit with lawsuits try to block marine life research, because the marine life has religious meaning ("that fish has the spirit of my great-grandmother in it!"), and lawsuits against volcano research ("that's where my great-grandparents used to toss their virgin daughters into!"
Serious scientific researchers just want to do research. They do not want to deal with protests and lawsuits, that would just distract them from their work.
I seriously that Hawaii would be able to find any investors. Even if the State Legislature approves, the Native Hawaiians will hit it with yet more lawsuits, and the courts will shut it down. After the TMT fiasco, potential investors will decide that it isn't worth the risk.
Anyway Hawaii already has tradition Native Hawaiian inter-island ferry services . . . they are called outrigger canoes. That would give the Native Hawaiian groups enough ammunition to claim that the new services were trying to use modern "white" naval technology to drive the outriggers out of business.
Maybe Über could step in, and offer a service where you could book rides on people's private boats . . . ?
As to the TMT, maybe the groups involved could dig up a Native Hawaiian astronomer who could negotiate between the two sides . . . ?
Their favorite hobby horses are self-determination and self-governance, for Hawaii as an independent nation, or for people of native Hawaiian ancestry to obtain "tribal sovereignty" similar to the relationship with Native Americans, for Native Hawaiians.
Well, there's the solution right there . . . give the Native Hawaiians the right to build gambling casinos, in exchange for the right to build a telescope.
Well, the problem is that a lot of politicians don't really understand what programming is all about, and they truly believe that programming is a simple, rudimentary skill. So simple that anyone can do it. All you need is couple of hours of online education, and hell, you can write a telecommunication billing system from scratch. The Obamacare website was the best example of this: the politicians and civil servants did not understand enough to manage the contractors.
Too many of these folks think that programming is like changing a spark plug in your car. All you need is a wrench, your "Tool", and your "Education", clockwise is "in" and counter-clockwise is "out". Presto, you are now a fully qualified Ferrari mechanic!
Hey, I have a Black & Decker drill, and a can of furniture spackle. I can now work as a dentist!
Then both Bernie and Hillary could both claim to have won . . . and lost . . . at the same time. Now looking over at the Republican corner . . . I think that the folks who have lost, are the American citizens.
Wouldn't it be cool, if some guy managed to crawl out of the Washington political poop, and declare himself as "socially liberal, fiscally conservative", and get people emotionally enthused about this election? The way I see it now, folks are just looking for the "least worse candidate".
I work for a large international IT services provider. At the beginning of each year, we are required to take an IT security course. One of the topics, is "no private email servers!". I'll take a wild guess, and think that US government employees need to do the same thing. But I'll further guess, that Hilliary thinks that she is too important, for these rules apply to her, and she let one of her underlings take the course for her.
No . . . really . . . she's always been a resident of New York . . . even though she never lived there . . . until the prominent Democrat Senator Patrick Moynihan retired, and there was a Democrat seat open in the Senate.
In New York, you could run a house plant on the election platform . . . and it would get elected.
Well, let's see how the US general electorate decides . . . but with Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump on the ballot . . . of course . . . America loses . . .
I think this site needs more porn . . . "Nudes for Nerds!" . . .
All joking aside, this site has incredible value. I don't come here to read the news; I can do that elsewhere. I come here to read what other nerds think about the news. You could post a story about Kim Kardashian's butt . . . one Slashdotter will post that he is working on his Ph.D. on celebrity posterior geometry. Another seismic expert will compare Kim's crack to the San Andreas fault.
The real value here, is from all these folks, who take their time to post their wisdom. When I buy anything . . . the first thing that I do, is to google through Slashdot. Slashdotters have bought everything, tried everything, and are not afraid to say, "This is cool!" or "This sucks!"
I wish you the best of luck with your new endeavor, and hope that the Slashdot community will continue to produce valuable information on the Internet!
Having said that, I would be really interested in their explanation of how it can be noon in Hawaii at the same time as it's the middle of the night in Paris.
That's easy it's a combination of turtles with mirrors and sun blocker discs on their backs . . .
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The name is a hoot and a half: "Trust and Safety Council". This sounds like something I would expect to see in a dictatorship, like North Korea, the former East Germany, Soviet Russia or a fistful of Middle East Sheikdoms.
Let's just call it what it really is: "Board of Censorship".
I'm beginning to believe that Forbes is the real new owner of Slashdot, and they just bought it through a front.
It would be interesting to see if they still have some folks working on the X-Files.
Now if these hackers want to win the Triple Crown, they need to do the NSA next.
5-10 years away means it's quite far from making economic sense.
5-10 years away means that in 5-10 years, it will still be 5-10 years away.
Does the state want to do something about this?
Check the donations from the utility to politicians in the state.
. . . now if they could do this to the NSA . . . that would be like winning the PowerBall.
But alas, the NSA is the difficult one to get in the Beanie Baby set . . .
Actually, Mark Zuckerberg was the one who cast the spell.
He was pissed off at India for blocking his free Internet, so he used his Weapon of Mass Destruction. He doesn't have an ICBM with an H-bomb, like North Korea, but he has something more powerful and deadly!
The Zuck disliked India.
Um, cows?
No, chicken:
http://www.mcdonaldsindia.com/...
http://burgerkingindia.in/menu
All food "tastes like chicken" anyway.
I dunno . . . take a look at the fearless leader's latest invention: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01...
I think North Korea created this, because the fearless drinks so much.
Or they used this hangover free alcohol as rocket fuel for their new ICBM . . .
On the other hand, as the jet fuel is consumed the weight decreases. Batteries stay the same weight for the entire flight.
An interesting point . . . when a jet needs to make an emergency landing with full tanks, it will ditch the fuel before attempting a landing, because of the fire danger. Will this be necessary with Li-Air? Could there be a danger of a fire if the plane needs to land under "extraordinary circumstances? Like, no landing gear?
So will a Li-Air plane need to have a mechanism to ditch the batteries?
And if the batteries land in my backyard, can I keep them . . . ?
Where are the academics at UH and other schools?
They are keeping low lest they come into the sites of the Native Hawaiian groups. UH has some brilliant researchers who do work on marine life and volcanoes. They want to pursue their own research. If they dare to put their fingers into the TMT hornet's nest, they will be hit with lawsuits try to block marine life research, because the marine life has religious meaning ("that fish has the spirit of my great-grandmother in it!"), and lawsuits against volcano research ("that's where my great-grandparents used to toss their virgin daughters into!"
Serious scientific researchers just want to do research. They do not want to deal with protests and lawsuits, that would just distract them from their work.
I seriously that Hawaii would be able to find any investors. Even if the State Legislature approves, the Native Hawaiians will hit it with yet more lawsuits, and the courts will shut it down. After the TMT fiasco, potential investors will decide that it isn't worth the risk.
Anyway Hawaii already has tradition Native Hawaiian inter-island ferry services . . . they are called outrigger canoes. That would give the Native Hawaiian groups enough ammunition to claim that the new services were trying to use modern "white" naval technology to drive the outriggers out of business.
Maybe Über could step in, and offer a service where you could book rides on people's private boats . . . ?
As to the TMT, maybe the groups involved could dig up a Native Hawaiian astronomer who could negotiate between the two sides . . . ?
Their favorite hobby horses are self-determination and self-governance, for Hawaii as an independent nation, or for people of native Hawaiian ancestry to obtain "tribal sovereignty" similar to the relationship with Native Americans, for Native Hawaiians.
Well, there's the solution right there . . . give the Native Hawaiians the right to build gambling casinos, in exchange for the right to build a telescope.
Order early, because the delivery time might be a wee bit long . . .
Well, the problem is that a lot of politicians don't really understand what programming is all about, and they truly believe that programming is a simple, rudimentary skill. So simple that anyone can do it. All you need is couple of hours of online education, and hell, you can write a telecommunication billing system from scratch. The Obamacare website was the best example of this: the politicians and civil servants did not understand enough to manage the contractors.
Too many of these folks think that programming is like changing a spark plug in your car. All you need is a wrench, your "Tool", and your "Education", clockwise is "in" and counter-clockwise is "out". Presto, you are now a fully qualified Ferrari mechanic!
Hey, I have a Black & Decker drill, and a can of furniture spackle. I can now work as a dentist!
Can I find a decent software engineering job there?
Then both Bernie and Hillary could both claim to have won . . . and lost . . . at the same time. Now looking over at the Republican corner . . . I think that the folks who have lost, are the American citizens.
Wouldn't it be cool, if some guy managed to crawl out of the Washington political poop, and declare himself as "socially liberal, fiscally conservative", and get people emotionally enthused about this election? The way I see it now, folks are just looking for the "least worse candidate".
That is a rather insightful thought . . . I have seen some code, and thought, "I wouldn't serve this to starving buzzards!"
Some folks shouldn't try to cook . . . and they shouldn't try to program either.
I work for a large international IT services provider. At the beginning of each year, we are required to take an IT security course. One of the topics, is "no private email servers!". I'll take a wild guess, and think that US government employees need to do the same thing. But I'll further guess, that Hilliary thinks that she is too important, for these rules apply to her, and she let one of her underlings take the course for her.
Except... turns out she lied.
No . . . really . . . she's always been a resident of New York . . . even though she never lived there . . . until the prominent Democrat Senator Patrick Moynihan retired, and there was a Democrat seat open in the Senate.
In New York, you could run a house plant on the election platform . . . and it would get elected.
Well, let's see how the US general electorate decides . . . but with Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump on the ballot . . . of course . . . America loses . . .
"news for nerds"
I think this site needs more porn . . . "Nudes for Nerds!" . . .
All joking aside, this site has incredible value. I don't come here to read the news; I can do that elsewhere. I come here to read what other nerds think about the news. You could post a story about Kim Kardashian's butt . . . one Slashdotter will post that he is working on his Ph.D. on celebrity posterior geometry. Another seismic expert will compare Kim's crack to the San Andreas fault.
The real value here, is from all these folks, who take their time to post their wisdom. When I buy anything . . . the first thing that I do, is to google through Slashdot. Slashdotters have bought everything, tried everything, and are not afraid to say, "This is cool!" or "This sucks!"
I wish you the best of luck with your new endeavor, and hope that the Slashdot community will continue to produce valuable information on the Internet!
Having said that, I would be really interested in their explanation of how it can be noon in Hawaii at the same time as it's the middle of the night in Paris.
That's easy it's a combination of turtles with mirrors and sun blocker discs on their backs . . .
. . . all the way down.
Obviously, science needs more diversity.
I guess this makes Niel deGrasse Tyson a racist.
Now that might attract an audience . . . two drones trying to knock each other out of the sky.
Sponsored by DARPA . . .
. . . they call it a "business plan" .