Doesn't require actual poisoning. Just a trigger (such as a couple of girls with mundane food poisoning.) The rest is mass hysteria.
Not long after 9/11 a local airport was shut down by a bio/chem poison gas scare. Bad smell (bad fart? backed up toilet?) triggered a rash of vague symptoms (headaches, nausea, dizziness, etc) and official panic. And there was the recent "uncontrollable tics" mass hysteria amongst teenage girls that I think Slashdot covered.
(The quickest test would have been to track the spread of symptoms, if you have a bunch of independent cases (water being the only link) you have genuine poisoning (or at least contamination). If you see the symptoms spread just behind the spread of rumours, you're probably seeing mass hysteria.)
I didn't think I was especially paranoid (I have a google account, don't use on-disk or in-mail encryption, etc) until I realised that this isn't how most people think.
Eh? If Ms Geary puts it anywhere public online, google can see it anyway. (As can the actual NSA.) So unless you're saying that Google will censor her work, your comment makes no sense.
So just copy the Ghostery block list, maybe the AdBlock block list, your choice of a couple more tools.
Guardian does seem to be re-inventing the wheel a bit. Ghostery (Evidon/Better-Adertising/Direct-Advertising-Assoc) already has not just a public list of tracking companies, but a page of info about each one.
Whereas Collision seems more about displaying the connections ("collisions") between known trackers that you personally encounter, not collecting new info for a data dump.
I like the Guardian, and I appreciate the journo sticking her head in the lions den, but it seems to me she&they would achieve more working with Evidon/etc to make Ghostery's/etc list available in a human useful form on the Guardian's website. "See the web within the Web".
For example, using a web-crawler armed with Ghostery's/etc list to link trackers to websites, then show the underlying network in a (Collision-style) interactive 3d display.
She/they might also look at how different sites respond to AdBlock. I've noticed that with ABP in my user-agent header, many sites don't even bother to serve ads. The flip side of the advertising war to force themselves onto users, some sites actually try to respect user-preferences without being dicks about it, or hysterical "OMG u r stealing teh contentz!" (hello Facebook.)
(I thought the GP was just doing the old "walked 10mi to school every day, in the snow, uphill both ways" joke. But it is actually possible.)
"this vehicle isn't designed for you"
"This vehicle" is stupid. But electrics in general would be ideal for GP's situation. Individual electric motors on each wheel driven by a central, high-efficiency diesel genny. High-torque, high-efficiency 4wd pick-up.
I believe it would have been the best first hybrid-electric vehicle class (since weight is less of an issue and it reduces, rather than increases, mechanical complexity), but we won't see it because people like GP (or the character he's channelling, if he was joking) would never in a million years buy anything but a gasoline-powered V8.
Why a diesel? If you decouple the power source (as opposed to power storage) from the wheels, you don't need torque/rpm flexibility and can switch to an efficient constant RPM engine.
...Like a diesel generator? 50% thermal efficiency instead of petrol/gasoline's 30%. And longer engine lifespan as a bonus.
Lots of hybrid watchers have been asking for diesel-electric plug-in hybrids since the Prius became chic.
(Apparently part of the problem is the US doesn't have proper national standards for diesel quality.)
Which is exactly what this map is for: geologic analysis, not navigation.
FTFA: "One of the reasons for making this map was to create [...] a tool for target planning of Io observations on future missions to the Jupiter system"
In other words, navigation. GP was wrong about that too.
(As for your other points, I was surprised how limited the volcanic resurfacing was. Most of the surface, while geologically young, is still achingly old by human standards; hundreds of millennia.)
By 2030 SpaceX will probably be running regular tourist flights
Not at the rate they're going. Their last launch was Dec 2010. Their next is scheduled for April (probably May) this year. And their first commercial payload will be sometime next year.
Name the brand, so that people know what companies to avoid.
I use a Cannon MFP, the scanner happily handles ID cards, including driver's licence. I hadn't, but just tried currency. Not only scanned it, auto-switched to a high enough resolution to pick out the micro-printing.
Also we've changed. Our understanding of the moon's history and geology has improved dramatically, which means we also know which experiments we need to perform.
Besides, perhaps this is just the embarassment that the US space program needs to get some funding again.
I doubt it. The embarrassment of not having a manned space program, being dependent on the Russian Soyuz (which is struggling with reliability), should have resulted in a rush order on the Commercial Crew developers; instead, the House tried to zero the CCDev budget, and the Senate's compromise severely delayed it. But if you touch a dollar of SLS, which won't launch humans until after 2021 (plus delays), Congress calls you a traitor.
Slashdot Mirror
I did find it... interesting that my broadband quota dropped five-fold (150GB/mth to 30GB/mth) soon after the sale to iiNet.
"I've been wanting to switch to Flickr, but it would be too difficult to explain to certain family members and friends."
Damn, Facebook really is the new AOL. Even my Nan can click a link in an email and bookmark the site that appears in her browser.
Doesn't require actual poisoning. Just a trigger (such as a couple of girls with mundane food poisoning.) The rest is mass hysteria.
Not long after 9/11 a local airport was shut down by a bio/chem poison gas scare. Bad smell (bad fart? backed up toilet?) triggered a rash of vague symptoms (headaches, nausea, dizziness, etc) and official panic. And there was the recent "uncontrollable tics" mass hysteria amongst teenage girls that I think Slashdot covered.
(The quickest test would have been to track the spread of symptoms, if you have a bunch of independent cases (water being the only link) you have genuine poisoning (or at least contamination). If you see the symptoms spread just behind the spread of rumours, you're probably seeing mass hysteria.)
Firefox + Ghostery
+ABP +NoScript +WOT +no-third-party-cookies...
I didn't think I was especially paranoid (I have a google account, don't use on-disk or in-mail encryption, etc) until I realised that this isn't how most people think.
But wait... someone just taught those girls something!
The value of organic chemistry?
nothing causing 3 of 3.
Three kids with food poisoning, plus 147 cases of mass hysteria?
My guess is if the hardliners wanted to kill a school full of girls, they'd actually kill some.
Eh? If Ms Geary puts it anywhere public online, google can see it anyway. (As can the actual NSA.) So unless you're saying that Google will censor her work, your comment makes no sense.
So just copy the Ghostery block list, maybe the AdBlock block list, your choice of a couple more tools.
Guardian does seem to be re-inventing the wheel a bit. Ghostery (Evidon/Better-Adertising/Direct-Advertising-Assoc) already has not just a public list of tracking companies, but a page of info about each one.
Whereas Collision seems more about displaying the connections ("collisions") between known trackers that you personally encounter, not collecting new info for a data dump.
I like the Guardian, and I appreciate the journo sticking her head in the lions den, but it seems to me she&they would achieve more working with Evidon/etc to make Ghostery's/etc list available in a human useful form on the Guardian's website. "See the web within the Web".
For example, using a web-crawler armed with Ghostery's/etc list to link trackers to websites, then show the underlying network in a (Collision-style) interactive 3d display.
She/they might also look at how different sites respond to AdBlock. I've noticed that with ABP in my user-agent header, many sites don't even bother to serve ads. The flip side of the advertising war to force themselves onto users, some sites actually try to respect user-preferences without being dicks about it, or hysterical "OMG u r stealing teh contentz!" (hello Facebook.)
Story of my life. I brag about having 6, and the other guy has 9.
we'll start tracking them back — finding out what data are they monitoring, and why.
Well, here's my contribution;
The Guardian page in the link has six trackers:
24/7 Real Media
Audience Science
ForeSee
Maxymiser
Optimizely
Quantcast
I don't know what any of them do, and I blocked them all. Fuck 'em.
A clip is not a user-serviceable part.
Not laser surgery. You will not be allowed to fly if you've had Lasik. Something to do with the fluid shift that occurs in micro-g.
Added a second liver for the drinking. Also hollowed out one of his legs.
Pikes Peak is in a National Park. No houses.
(I thought the GP was just doing the old "walked 10mi to school every day, in the snow, uphill both ways" joke. But it is actually possible.)
"this vehicle isn't designed for you"
"This vehicle" is stupid. But electrics in general would be ideal for GP's situation. Individual electric motors on each wheel driven by a central, high-efficiency diesel genny. High-torque, high-efficiency 4wd pick-up.
I believe it would have been the best first hybrid-electric vehicle class (since weight is less of an issue and it reduces, rather than increases, mechanical complexity), but we won't see it because people like GP (or the character he's channelling, if he was joking) would never in a million years buy anything but a gasoline-powered V8.
Why a diesel? If you decouple the power source (as opposed to power storage) from the wheels, you don't need torque/rpm flexibility and can switch to an efficient constant RPM engine.
...Like a diesel generator? 50% thermal efficiency instead of petrol/gasoline's 30%. And longer engine lifespan as a bonus.
Lots of hybrid watchers have been asking for diesel-electric plug-in hybrids since the Prius became chic.
(Apparently part of the problem is the US doesn't have proper national standards for diesel quality.)
If I had but one mod point to give, I would give it to you.
Which is exactly what this map is for: geologic analysis, not navigation.
FTFA: "One of the reasons for making this map was to create [...] a tool for target planning of Io observations on future missions to the Jupiter system"
In other words, navigation. GP was wrong about that too.
(As for your other points, I was surprised how limited the volcanic resurfacing was. Most of the surface, while geologically young, is still achingly old by human standards; hundreds of millennia.)
By 2030 SpaceX will probably be running regular tourist flights
Not at the rate they're going. Their last launch was Dec 2010. Their next is scheduled for April (probably May) this year. And their first commercial payload will be sometime next year.
Name the brand, so that people know what companies to avoid.
I use a Cannon MFP, the scanner happily handles ID cards, including driver's licence. I hadn't, but just tried currency. Not only scanned it, auto-switched to a high enough resolution to pick out the micro-printing.
Also we've changed. Our understanding of the moon's history and geology has improved dramatically, which means we also know which experiments we need to perform.
Besides, perhaps this is just the embarassment that the US space program needs to get some funding again.
I doubt it. The embarrassment of not having a manned space program, being dependent on the Russian Soyuz (which is struggling with reliability), should have resulted in a rush order on the Commercial Crew developers; instead, the House tried to zero the CCDev budget, and the Senate's compromise severely delayed it. But if you touch a dollar of SLS, which won't launch humans until after 2021 (plus delays), Congress calls you a traitor.
to correct a mistake
You misspelled "to punish a 6 year systematic fraud".
Are you saying we should use faith-based calibration?
Have they actually been trained, or did someone just fill out the paperwork to say they've been trained?
In the US it's "Obstruction of justice". Maybe perjury, since the documentation is intended for court.
Why?