Well, you also fly ON an air-plane and not in an air-plane, even though most of us would prefer to be inside one when travelling at a speed of 800 km/h at an altitude of 10 km...
I'd love to see the fantasy land where IT is cherished. Especially outside of an IT company. I haven't seen it.
Try working for a small engineering company. One that has people who are certified engineers in various fields.
When I did, not only didn't they raise an eyebrow when I asked if we could purchase Rational Rose (the package I was trained in), they didn't even read my reasoning. They just asked what it was for - "it's a bit like making floor-plans for..." was as far as I got.
I even, and I kid you not, got scolded for not having set aside enough time to document the software I was making. They weren't interested in "out the door quickly" - they wanted "out the door correctly". They wanted the documentation as *gasp* part of the sales pitch. Not all of it, just the bits that would be relevant for our clients' IT department. And they wanted the documentation for the same reasons that they still had the electrical schematics for houses and office buildings they had helped design in the 60's.
And it's rather reassuring to work in a place, where even the secretary understands basic security and will ask questions like "What company do you work for again?" to some bloke claiming to be from the ISP and then not only call the ISP and ask them to describe the technician before letting him in AND insist that someone keep an eye on him while he's running some new cable inside the wall.
Besides, him driving a 10ton truck does not mean he has more right of way and overtaking has to be done with sufficient margin, usually in the next traffic lane.
Very true. My point wasn't that I was pissing him off or in his way. My point was that not only was he exceedingly safety concious, he did nothing to show if he was annoyed - including flashing me a smile and a small friendly wave when I looked back at him.
There are of course drivers who will speed up to get past me on my bike and then make the turn in front of me, forcing me to more or less jump on my brake to avoid smashing into them. And all they get out of it is getting to their destination maybe 10 seconds faster than slowing down.
Or the idiots who thinks it's necessary to switch from short to long beams in the middle of the night, just because there's a bike going the other way. I've lost count of the number of times fuckers like that have completely blinded me. And unfortunately only once did I get back at them, as I had a 1,000,000 candela portable flood light on me *evil grin*. Just a shame the fucker didn't crash his car, but at least he managed to switch to the short beams instead.
And I'm sure the 900 pound motorcycle will be great fun in the middle of the forest on muddy and sometimes swampy surface, not to mention how much people will love it when I am going along a trail that passes about 15 feet from their bedroom. Did I mention that I quite enjoy riding in the middle of the night?
And I'm sure I won't be scaring off animals either. And it's not like bird song or the wind in the trees is anywhere near as calming as the constant roar of an engine pumping out 100 dB of noise. Nor does it smell anywhere near as nice as when you've stopped in the middle of nowhere to enjoy the view - I mean, what is the point of smelling wild flowers and raw nature when you could be smelling burned oil, gasoline and hot rubber
What next - will people recommend that I buy a nice off road car instead of running shoes? What is the obsession with having everything engine powered? If I am completely broke, I can still take my bike out for a ride - even if it has electrical assist. I can only do that with a motorcycle or car until it runs out.
Compared to sitting on a scooter/motorcycle, you'll get exercise on an electrical bicycle. Especially as they mostly come with electrical assist and don't just run on their own.
That was my point. Even if it only means you'll get 25% of the workout you'll get on a regular bike, that's still a lot more calories burned than you'll get by just sitting on the scooter.
And I don't know it's "meant for the elderly". Would I want the bike from Sanyo? No, I wouldn't - it doesn't fit my needs. Would I like electrical assist on my mountain bike? Yes, I would. Quite a lot of the hills around here are steep enough that I can't climb them on my own. Quite a lot of them are step enough that I can climb them for about... 200 meters at a time before dying.
The electrical assist would allow me much greater freedom in my exercise and excursions. Instead of being limited to taking a short 10 km run, I could do 20 or 30 km and get pretty much the same calorie burn.
Not only that, but keeping a certain speed is much much more dependent on the aerodynamics of your vehicle than its weight. Getting up to that speed is affected, sure, but keeping it not so much.
So using something that will get you into shape is gay. Interesting.
No wonder my ass is always so sore after my workouts. I thought it was because the seat isn't all that comfortable, but it turns out that apparently I'm actually taking a cock up my ass for hours on end.
even truck drivers on "right of way" roads will sometime yield to bicycles
I've had the rather intimidating experience of 'dragging' an 13(?)-meter truck behind me for about 4 miles of twisty, windy and rain covered roads in the local area. The road in question has about 30 cm of shoulder before becoming a rather steep hill ending in a lake, and at the time there was very heavy traffic in the oncoming direction.
I look over my shoulder an notice the truck about three seconds behind me and a driver who was very obvious in looking at me and the road. Not angry or annoyed, just very very attentive. When the traffic finally allowed him to overtake, he seemed to fall back further before pulling completely into the opposite lane in what seemed like an attempt to keep from knocking me over with the turbulence.
Obviously the police didn't take the threat seriously at all:
A week after posting the message on the social networking site, he was arrested
If it takes the police to find Paul J Chambers when there a PICTURE of him on his Twitter profile AND it tells you he's from Doncaster, England.
Now, I'm not the police, but I think that if I had access to a phone book of Doncaster, I could probably find the guy in a few hours. Given that he's 90% likely to have a drivers license, it's not like it'd make it any more difficult to find him.
And maybe to see if I can get noticed by some companies
Well, you are clearly orchestrating the distribution of copyrighted items to millions of internet users, AND the ads on your website are going to bring in a bit of money, so you should be expecting a call by the MPAA/RIAA or similar in a day or so...;)
Without cheating (apart from knowing that something would happen, I counted 10 passes out of 13 and I noticed the bear. I didn't notice that it was moon walking though
What are you on about? Do you even know what the BSD license is?
The only thing anyone using BSD licensed items have to give back is author credit. They simply aren't allowed to say "we made this", they have to say "$author made this".
This has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with paranoid ignorance.
Weapons and jamming systems I can understand, but why the hell would they want you to remove the radar from a plan that can travel at twice the speed of sound?
Anything you can see you will be past before you can react, whether it will be by a wide margin, straight through or anything in-between. Essentially you're giving the buyer a legitimate excuse for it slamming into an airliner. "Well, we aren't allowed to have radar. If we had a radar, we would never have hit it."
As some people have pointed out, most of the things you mention aren't problems. Loss of speed, straightness of barrel etc. Plus, as they say, you get to aim for different orbits in one platform
One thing they didn't point out which is significant: Logistics.
You go ahead and bring huge supply train up the side of Mauna Kea - I'm sure none of the neighbours will mind. As someone else pointed out, I'm sure they wont mind when something goes tits up and you send shrapnel towards them at a km/s.
Logistics are a killer though. With an ocean platform, you already have your base on the harbour. You have plenty water for all types of uses, like desalinate for drinking, use in flushing, cooling etc., and you only have to make sure your installations are protected against sea water. If you need a big housing base for staff etc. you can float in every thing you need by buying a small cruise ship. Park an oil tanker next to it for fuel and gas needs and retrofit it for ship to ship refuelling.
Compare all those advantages to the minor inconvenience of losing a small bit of initial velocities, and you end up with a massive conclusion of ocean based vs nailed to the side of a mountain.
Someone higher up linked to the Google Tech Talk by Dr. John Hunter, President of Quicklaunch, Inc.
At 09:30 he points out that they are in fact planning on launching single stage rockets. The rockets will ignite at 100 km altitude and they're aiming for a 500 km low earth orbit. They start with a launch speed of 6 km/s and they need to reach 7.2 km/s. He doesn't mention what speed the rocket is at at 100 km altitude before ignition, but essentially they've made the first stage a massive and easily reusable one in the shape of a cannon.
It almost makes me a little optimistic about the teabagger movement in the US. If you can get these people to come out and express their anger at "big government", all you have to do now is fill them in on who the real enemy is and then you've got something
And how do you do that?
You can't expect Fox News to prop up that idea like they did with the teabaggers. Same with CNN, MSNBC, and all the others. No newspaper would touch it either, as they'd go broke quicker than you can say "I". Probably the only reputable news source that would touch it is The Daily Show, and even then I'm not sure their owners would let it happen.
Sure, blogs bla bla bla... but what good is that when no-one is willing to show your protests on TV? And if they are, you can be sure they will belittle and dig up dirt on ALL the people organizing it. They will do everything they can to make sure, that anyone connected with this 'revolution' of yours will be painted as someone worse than a child molester and Stalin combined.
But by all means, see if you can get the same kind of media coverage as the teabaggers.
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Well, you also fly ON an air-plane and not in an air-plane, even though most of us would prefer to be inside one when travelling at a speed of 800 km/h at an altitude of 10 km ...
Try working for a small engineering company. One that has people who are certified engineers in various fields.
When I did, not only didn't they raise an eyebrow when I asked if we could purchase Rational Rose (the package I was trained in), they didn't even read my reasoning. They just asked what it was for - "it's a bit like making floor-plans for ..." was as far as I got.
I even, and I kid you not, got scolded for not having set aside enough time to document the software I was making. They weren't interested in "out the door quickly" - they wanted "out the door correctly". They wanted the documentation as *gasp* part of the sales pitch. Not all of it, just the bits that would be relevant for our clients' IT department. And they wanted the documentation for the same reasons that they still had the electrical schematics for houses and office buildings they had helped design in the 60's.
And it's rather reassuring to work in a place, where even the secretary understands basic security and will ask questions like "What company do you work for again?" to some bloke claiming to be from the ISP and then not only call the ISP and ask them to describe the technician before letting him in AND insist that someone keep an eye on him while he's running some new cable inside the wall.
Very true. My point wasn't that I was pissing him off or in his way. My point was that not only was he exceedingly safety concious, he did nothing to show if he was annoyed - including flashing me a smile and a small friendly wave when I looked back at him.
There are of course drivers who will speed up to get past me on my bike and then make the turn in front of me, forcing me to more or less jump on my brake to avoid smashing into them. And all they get out of it is getting to their destination maybe 10 seconds faster than slowing down.
Or the idiots who thinks it's necessary to switch from short to long beams in the middle of the night, just because there's a bike going the other way. I've lost count of the number of times fuckers like that have completely blinded me. And unfortunately only once did I get back at them, as I had a 1,000,000 candela portable flood light on me *evil grin*. Just a shame the fucker didn't crash his car, but at least he managed to switch to the short beams instead.
And I'm sure the 900 pound motorcycle will be great fun in the middle of the forest on muddy and sometimes swampy surface, not to mention how much people will love it when I am going along a trail that passes about 15 feet from their bedroom. Did I mention that I quite enjoy riding in the middle of the night?
And I'm sure I won't be scaring off animals either. And it's not like bird song or the wind in the trees is anywhere near as calming as the constant roar of an engine pumping out 100 dB of noise. Nor does it smell anywhere near as nice as when you've stopped in the middle of nowhere to enjoy the view - I mean, what is the point of smelling wild flowers and raw nature when you could be smelling burned oil, gasoline and hot rubber
What next - will people recommend that I buy a nice off road car instead of running shoes? What is the obsession with having everything engine powered? If I am completely broke, I can still take my bike out for a ride - even if it has electrical assist. I can only do that with a motorcycle or car until it runs out.
Compared to sitting on a scooter/motorcycle, you'll get exercise on an electrical bicycle. Especially as they mostly come with electrical assist and don't just run on their own.
That was my point. Even if it only means you'll get 25% of the workout you'll get on a regular bike, that's still a lot more calories burned than you'll get by just sitting on the scooter.
And I don't know it's "meant for the elderly". Would I want the bike from Sanyo? No, I wouldn't - it doesn't fit my needs. Would I like electrical assist on my mountain bike? Yes, I would. Quite a lot of the hills around here are steep enough that I can't climb them on my own. Quite a lot of them are step enough that I can climb them for about ... 200 meters at a time before dying.
The electrical assist would allow me much greater freedom in my exercise and excursions. Instead of being limited to taking a short 10 km run, I could do 20 or 30 km and get pretty much the same calorie burn.
Not only that, but keeping a certain speed is much much more dependent on the aerodynamics of your vehicle than its weight. Getting up to that speed is affected, sure, but keeping it not so much.
So using something that will get you into shape is gay. Interesting.
No wonder my ass is always so sore after my workouts. I thought it was because the seat isn't all that comfortable, but it turns out that apparently I'm actually taking a cock up my ass for hours on end.
I've had the rather intimidating experience of 'dragging' an 13(?)-meter truck behind me for about 4 miles of twisty, windy and rain covered roads in the local area. The road in question has about 30 cm of shoulder before becoming a rather steep hill ending in a lake, and at the time there was very heavy traffic in the oncoming direction.
I look over my shoulder an notice the truck about three seconds behind me and a driver who was very obvious in looking at me and the road. Not angry or annoyed, just very very attentive. When the traffic finally allowed him to overtake, he seemed to fall back further before pulling completely into the opposite lane in what seemed like an attempt to keep from knocking me over with the turbulence.
Hence the ;) at the end.
Remember - just because you're doing something 100% legal, doesn't mean the copyright idiots won't go after you.
His tweets are protected.
Obviously the police didn't take the threat seriously at all:
If it takes the police to find Paul J Chambers when there a PICTURE of him on his Twitter profile AND it tells you he's from Doncaster, England.
Now, I'm not the police, but I think that if I had access to a phone book of Doncaster, I could probably find the guy in a few hours. Given that he's 90% likely to have a drivers license, it's not like it'd make it any more difficult to find him.
Geez!
Well, you are clearly orchestrating the distribution of copyrighted items to millions of internet users, AND the ads on your website are going to bring in a bit of money, so you should be expecting a call by the MPAA/RIAA or similar in a day or so ... ;)
Without cheating (apart from knowing that something would happen, I counted 10 passes out of 13 and I noticed the bear. I didn't notice that it was moon walking though
What are you on about? Do you even know what the BSD license is?
The only thing anyone using BSD licensed items have to give back is author credit. They simply aren't allowed to say "we made this", they have to say "$author made this".
This has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with paranoid ignorance.
Of course, the irony in that statement is that now the top link for osama bin laden now HAS a picture of the Spanish politician.
I was going to suggest something like New York -> Reykjavik Reykjavik is ~1,900 km
New York -> Reykjavik is ~4.200 km
Range: 3,530 km at altitude, and definitely not at Mach 2. Someone mentioned drop tanks, but I've no clue what that would add to the range.
But it probably didn't do it at Mach 2. If it's just at sub-sonic speeds, it's not much of a replacement for a Concord for trans-atlantic travel.
Weapons and jamming systems I can understand, but why the hell would they want you to remove the radar from a plan that can travel at twice the speed of sound?
Anything you can see you will be past before you can react, whether it will be by a wide margin, straight through or anything in-between. Essentially you're giving the buyer a legitimate excuse for it slamming into an airliner. "Well, we aren't allowed to have radar. If we had a radar, we would never have hit it."
As some people have pointed out, most of the things you mention aren't problems. Loss of speed, straightness of barrel etc. Plus, as they say, you get to aim for different orbits in one platform
One thing they didn't point out which is significant: Logistics.
You go ahead and bring huge supply train up the side of Mauna Kea - I'm sure none of the neighbours will mind. As someone else pointed out, I'm sure they wont mind when something goes tits up and you send shrapnel towards them at a km/s.
Logistics are a killer though. With an ocean platform, you already have your base on the harbour. You have plenty water for all types of uses, like desalinate for drinking, use in flushing, cooling etc., and you only have to make sure your installations are protected against sea water. If you need a big housing base for staff etc. you can float in every thing you need by buying a small cruise ship. Park an oil tanker next to it for fuel and gas needs and retrofit it for ship to ship refuelling.
Compare all those advantages to the minor inconvenience of losing a small bit of initial velocities, and you end up with a massive conclusion of ocean based vs nailed to the side of a mountain.
Someone higher up linked to the Google Tech Talk by Dr. John Hunter, President of Quicklaunch, Inc.
At 09:30 he points out that they are in fact planning on launching single stage rockets. The rockets will ignite at 100 km altitude and they're aiming for a 500 km low earth orbit. They start with a launch speed of 6 km/s and they need to reach 7.2 km/s. He doesn't mention what speed the rocket is at at 100 km altitude before ignition, but essentially they've made the first stage a massive and easily reusable one in the shape of a cannon.
Look ... citing your sources and pointing people to more information is for journalism, and that is a dead discipline.
More like Apocalime. Maybe Appleypse?
Afghanistan favourite: Talibanana
And how do you do that?
You can't expect Fox News to prop up that idea like they did with the teabaggers. Same with CNN, MSNBC, and all the others. No newspaper would touch it either, as they'd go broke quicker than you can say "I". Probably the only reputable news source that would touch it is The Daily Show, and even then I'm not sure their owners would let it happen.
Sure, blogs bla bla bla ... but what good is that when no-one is willing to show your protests on TV? And if they are, you can be sure they will belittle and dig up dirt on ALL the people organizing it. They will do everything they can to make sure, that anyone connected with this 'revolution' of yours will be painted as someone worse than a child molester and Stalin combined.
But by all means, see if you can get the same kind of media coverage as the teabaggers.
They probably have plenty of walls. It's just a shame when the walls surrounding the heavy steel doors are made of rice paper.
Could be interesting to see a map with each of those airports pinned and a 100 mile circle around it. Just to see if any place is left out.