Also, the computer power needed to make it work couldn't be fit on a rocket back then. It takes a lot of local computer power to do active trust attitude control that way. Even with an unbroken telemetry link (and there is almost always some telemetry loss during re-entry), the communications lag would be too much to use a remote computer.
As I recall, there actually was a possible motive. He had a friend who was on trial for the crime of homosexual conduct. Yes, that's right, we're not talking 1940's UK here, we're talking about the 21st century. I'm by no means left-leaning and I think it's pretty dumb. I seem to recall but not very well that there was also something going on where his wife and kids had moved out.
And yeah, he was a flight simulator junkie and could easily have planned and practiced this from his own house. Of course flight simulators wouldn't have had the subtle detail of the pings on an unsubscribed satellite link, so if he really did do it, he wouldn't have known he was leaving a trail behind, no matter how faint.
I think he very probably snapped and decided he wanted to punish the Malaysian government by crashing a plane where it couldn't be found. Little did he know that they would get a double whammy a few months later over the Ukraine. I hope they find the damn plane already so we can see what the fuck really happened.
Came looking for this, was not disappointed. They keep finding the same broken half-answers on a web site that is skewed by people scamming for points.
I never signed up for SO, and now it's not worth bothering, because between so much already having been answered, and people who know less than they think they do down-voting good answers, I could never get any kind of decent reputation score, short of creating my own programming language that got popular so I'd have fresh questions to answer.
If you don't watch any other episode, I suggest you watch episode 4 ("If the Stars Should Appear"), possibly the best one so far. Episodes 5 and 6 are pretty good too.
The only things I've watched on CBS in the past ten years or so have been Elementary, Person of Interest, and Big Bang Theory. (and soon Young Sheldon) That's it. And I've been really annoyed with them when they moved Elementary to Sunday nights and would repeatedly let sports (mostly handegg) delay the entire schedule by 30 minutes or more, completely fucking DVR viewers. (Fox has learned to put a sacrificial rerun in the first slot of their Sunday lineup.)
In fact, I only got into PoI because the tail-ends of episodes showed up in my recordings of the first season of Elementary. It took a few years when it finally reached syndication that I finally got to see the first two seasons.
Episode 3 was just breaking the "starship crew always saves the day" trope. If Kirk or Picard had been involved, they would have won. And it was also parodying SJW in the first place, by making the transition to male rather than to female.
When it hadn't shown yet, people were expecting The Family Guy in Space, full of fart jokes. Maybe that's even what Seth made the network think in order to sell it. Then while watching it, the captain has to have his ex as a first officer? Married with Crew? Nope, they use it for occasional gags, but nowhere near too much.
It has basically serious plots with a dysfunctional and irreverent crew, explained in-story by "we have three thousand ships that need crew!", and since Mercer didn't rate a prime post, he rightfully gets a ship with less than the best crew. But in the end, they still get it done. Yeah, The Orville can probably be best described as "Star Trek: Scrubs".
But most of all, what it has and STD lacks is fun.
They broadcast the first episode on the air. So I saw it for free. I expected a bunch of SJW crap. They must have pushed that forward to a later episode because all I got was a big borefest. It felt horribly stretched out while I watched it, then "oh hey, part two, $ign up for $treaming to $ee it!" The only part of it I enjoyed at all was the teaser.
They couldn't write proper crew discipline, the sets were too dark to see shit half the time, gratuitous dutch camera angles, and especially the stupid "if $CHARACTER isn't back in exactly $N seconds, radiation will kill him/her, but even one second less and they'll be fine" trope. And today I heard that the writers came up with shroom-powered FTL technology? WTF?
Transporters like they're safe!: McCoy was still concerned about transporters in TOS, and the tech was still known for mishaps in the TOS era. Yet they use them in EVERY POSSIBLE SITUATION they could be dangerous.
Meanwhile, The Orville avoids them. There is some kind of transporter technology, but only in the hands of higher-tech-level aliens, without even explaining how they work (magic reassembly, wormholes, whatever).
And it's a good thing too, because transporters are a lazy-ass plot device, probably the weakest tech of Star Trek. Okay, so you can be disassembled inside the transporter station, but how does it cause you to be reassembled perfectly, hundreds of miles away?
Now that there's a BC emulator, I guess I won't be finding unwanted original Xbox games for pennies anymore. At least I amassed a good pile of games from back when I was ripping them into a chipped and juke-boxed Xbox. (Why pirate when the original disc is cheap?) I still have my two chipped Xboxes somewhere.
The mortgage isn't increasing, but the property tax escrow is (usually) rolled into the monthly payment, and that is what causes higher payments. The property tax is based on a percentage of the property's value as assessed by the local (usually county) government, which may be higher or lower than its real value if it were put on the market, and which also may be subject to limits of how much it can be increased each year, such as 10% a per year maximum increase.
I'll rephrase what was stated in another reply. In the US, most mortgages pay the property tax and roll it into the monthly interest payments via an escrow account. This ensures that the property doesn't get repossessed for failure to pay the taxes.
Basically, a sharply increasing property value is only good if you both own the property outright and the property tax does not increase beyond your ability to pay it... or if you were about to sell it and move out of town anyhow.
My excuse is 2013 Chrysler, maybe they'll hear about Unicode one of these days. Your problem is that the Japanese are sufficiently xenophobic that the idea of a gaijin who can read Japanese scares them shitless.
Quoted for truth. And it's 100% Pottering-free! The jelly must be strong in the systemd lovers. Maybe someone should do a launchd-based Linux distro, just to rub it in.
Nope. No way can I handle anywhere near that much smoke escaping. And at 6 feet tall I'm a bit too big for those things anyhow. The closest I ever got to Brit cars was a (5'3" or so) cow-orker who imported a Mini back in '99, with obligatory union jack painted on its roof.
A modern soldered-4GB Mac Mini isn't useful for much more than a media player. I got one cheap and that's actually what I use it for, as a MythTV client. But you can actually use an Xbox to play games.
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Also, the computer power needed to make it work couldn't be fit on a rocket back then. It takes a lot of local computer power to do active trust attitude control that way. Even with an unbroken telemetry link (and there is almost always some telemetry loss during re-entry), the communications lag would be too much to use a remote computer.
"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" - S.R. Hadden
As I recall, there actually was a possible motive. He had a friend who was on trial for the crime of homosexual conduct. Yes, that's right, we're not talking 1940's UK here, we're talking about the 21st century. I'm by no means left-leaning and I think it's pretty dumb. I seem to recall but not very well that there was also something going on where his wife and kids had moved out.
And yeah, he was a flight simulator junkie and could easily have planned and practiced this from his own house. Of course flight simulators wouldn't have had the subtle detail of the pings on an unsubscribed satellite link, so if he really did do it, he wouldn't have known he was leaving a trail behind, no matter how faint.
I think he very probably snapped and decided he wanted to punish the Malaysian government by crashing a plane where it couldn't be found. Little did he know that they would get a double whammy a few months later over the Ukraine. I hope they find the damn plane already so we can see what the fuck really happened.
Came looking for this, was not disappointed. They keep finding the same broken half-answers on a web site that is skewed by people scamming for points.
I never signed up for SO, and now it's not worth bothering, because between so much already having been answered, and people who know less than they think they do down-voting good answers, I could never get any kind of decent reputation score, short of creating my own programming language that got popular so I'd have fresh questions to answer.
Can we add smart quotes to that list?
If you don't watch any other episode, I suggest you watch episode 4 ("If the Stars Should Appear"), possibly the best one so far. Episodes 5 and 6 are pretty good too.
The only things I've watched on CBS in the past ten years or so have been Elementary, Person of Interest, and Big Bang Theory. (and soon Young Sheldon) That's it. And I've been really annoyed with them when they moved Elementary to Sunday nights and would repeatedly let sports (mostly handegg) delay the entire schedule by 30 minutes or more, completely fucking DVR viewers. (Fox has learned to put a sacrificial rerun in the first slot of their Sunday lineup.)
In fact, I only got into PoI because the tail-ends of episodes showed up in my recordings of the first season of Elementary. It took a few years when it finally reached syndication that I finally got to see the first two seasons.
Episode 3 was just breaking the "starship crew always saves the day" trope. If Kirk or Picard had been involved, they would have won. And it was also parodying SJW in the first place, by making the transition to male rather than to female.
When it hadn't shown yet, people were expecting The Family Guy in Space, full of fart jokes. Maybe that's even what Seth made the network think in order to sell it. Then while watching it, the captain has to have his ex as a first officer? Married with Crew? Nope, they use it for occasional gags, but nowhere near too much.
It has basically serious plots with a dysfunctional and irreverent crew, explained in-story by "we have three thousand ships that need crew!", and since Mercer didn't rate a prime post, he rightfully gets a ship with less than the best crew. But in the end, they still get it done. Yeah, The Orville can probably be best described as "Star Trek: Scrubs".
But most of all, what it has and STD lacks is fun.
Star Trek Discovery is about as enjoyable as an STD
And apparently it is about as hard to get rid of as an STD, too.
But it's not even worth that much effort.
They broadcast the first episode on the air. So I saw it for free. I expected a bunch of SJW crap. They must have pushed that forward to a later episode because all I got was a big borefest. It felt horribly stretched out while I watched it, then "oh hey, part two, $ign up for $treaming to $ee it!" The only part of it I enjoyed at all was the teaser.
They couldn't write proper crew discipline, the sets were too dark to see shit half the time, gratuitous dutch camera angles, and especially the stupid "if $CHARACTER isn't back in exactly $N seconds, radiation will kill him/her, but even one second less and they'll be fine" trope. And today I heard that the writers came up with shroom-powered FTL technology? WTF?
Transporters like they're safe!: McCoy was still concerned about transporters in TOS, and the tech was still known for mishaps in the TOS era. Yet they use them in EVERY POSSIBLE SITUATION they could be dangerous.
Meanwhile, The Orville avoids them. There is some kind of transporter technology, but only in the hands of higher-tech-level aliens, without even explaining how they work (magic reassembly, wormholes, whatever).
And it's a good thing too, because transporters are a lazy-ass plot device, probably the weakest tech of Star Trek. Okay, so you can be disassembled inside the transporter station, but how does it cause you to be reassembled perfectly, hundreds of miles away?
Now that there's a BC emulator, I guess I won't be finding unwanted original Xbox games for pennies anymore. At least I amassed a good pile of games from back when I was ripping them into a chipped and juke-boxed Xbox. (Why pirate when the original disc is cheap?) I still have my two chipped Xboxes somewhere.
You can also tell because there were no dupes.
But who was The Mule?
The mortgage isn't increasing, but the property tax escrow is (usually) rolled into the monthly payment, and that is what causes higher payments. The property tax is based on a percentage of the property's value as assessed by the local (usually county) government, which may be higher or lower than its real value if it were put on the market, and which also may be subject to limits of how much it can be increased each year, such as 10% a per year maximum increase.
I'll rephrase what was stated in another reply. In the US, most mortgages pay the property tax and roll it into the monthly interest payments via an escrow account. This ensures that the property doesn't get repossessed for failure to pay the taxes.
Basically, a sharply increasing property value is only good if you both own the property outright and the property tax does not increase beyond your ability to pay it... or if you were about to sell it and move out of town anyhow.
Wait, recent? I haven't posted there in over a decade, so that won't be me. I've barely even kept usenet up for a few binaries groups.
My excuse is 2013 Chrysler, maybe they'll hear about Unicode one of these days. Your problem is that the Japanese are sufficiently xenophobic that the idea of a gaijin who can read Japanese scares them shitless.
"launchd", which systemd is a bad clone of
Quoted for truth. And it's 100% Pottering-free! The jelly must be strong in the systemd lovers. Maybe someone should do a launchd-based Linux distro, just to rub it in.
original Sons Of Lucas?
Nope. No way can I handle anywhere near that much smoke escaping. And at 6 feet tall I'm a bit too big for those things anyhow. The closest I ever got to Brit cars was a (5'3" or so) cow-orker who imported a Mini back in '99, with obligatory union jack painted on its roof.
A modern soldered-4GB Mac Mini isn't useful for much more than a media player. I got one cheap and that's actually what I use it for, as a MythTV client. But you can actually use an Xbox to play games.
You never watched Community, did you?
Check your font drive shafts
That's a good idea, you wouldn't want to end up with a Helvetica scenario.