The interesting bit with that extended border thing, is that technically the airport any international flight lands at is a border. That adds an extra 31,416 square miles of border that they're allowed to search at all times. With a total area of 3,794,101 square miles they only need 120 perfectly placed airports with an 'international border point' to cover all of the US.
If you can't use substance A, use substance B which is cheaper to use than substance Q.
Substance Q may be completely harmless and substance B might make your eyes rot if you look at it for more than ten seconds, but if B is legal, doesn't the company have a legal obligation to their shareholders to use B instead of Q, when Q is 10 times as expensive?
Instead of being shocked or dismayed, he actually laughs at it. That is, to me, the best possible way he could react. The only thing that could have made it better, would have been if he had said something like "well, you've just earned yourself a new phone".
Even naked pictures of an adult woman, standing in front of a completely white background, on a completely white floor, doing nothing, holding nothing, being covered in nothing is not necessarily going to arouse an adult heterosexual male.
Even if we insist that the people in question be between 18 and 36, and thus age-wise capable of reproduction. Even if we rule out immediate family.
I very very much doubt, that even a minimal majority of the random sampling of men chosen for the study, would find this woman (be warned) arousing. Granted, IF we choose our sample from cultures where that particular body shape might be considered attractive, then this woman (again, be warned) would not be seen as arousing. In fact, I think you'll have a hard time finding many men in western societies that find either arousing.
Try your very best to 'flirt' with the person who's going to pat you down. Moan softly but audibly when they start. They start up high, so try to press your chest against their hand.
I'm very curious about the number of times, the pat-down is completed along with the distribution amongst gender, age groups and race.
If you are suspecting something bad, why would you want to open the container? If it's an liquid explosive of some sort, how do you know that it won't react badly to the air? It could be sealed in a nitrogen environment. How do you know it's not a biological weapon? Chemical weapon?
Since the sensors say 'TNT' and your eyes tell you it's not TNT, my gut reaction is to call in a crew that knows what to do with ptentially dangerous substances that might have been in contact with TNT, might be some kind of new explosive, chemical or biological weapon.
What I wouldn't do when handling an unknown substance is take a deep breath and try to guess what it is. For all I know it could be some way of storing Hydrogen Flouride in such a way, that upon contact with air, it will release a couple of gallons of it into the air. Or how about Sarin gas in a new kind of liquid containment?
Whomever opened those bottles should be fired for completely neglegent behaviour and wilfully exposing the public to an unknown and potentially lethal danger. Actually, bring criminal charges against them as well.
All it would take is one marginally tech-competent journalist to find a couple of baby pictures and/or a frame preloaded with 2-girls 1-cup
Remember that even possessing child pornography is a federal offence or something like that in the US. Even (probably especially) if you then delete the pictures without notifying the authorities.
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone were to send one of these picture frames to all the federal politicians in the US. And then made sure their particular frame would pull up such pictures? Instant slammer time for all politicians. Imagine how much fun the news networks would have with that.
The explanation for it being "boring" is the same explanation as to why an two elephants walking across an anthill looks boring - you're not watching the details.
One of the Titans they talk about in the summary is an Avatar. It has a volume of 155,000,000 m^3. If they were completely completely spherical, they'd have a radius of 333 meters.
In the opening of the battle (post jump I suppose?) I see at least 6 titans on "our" side of the camera. I'm guessing the distance between the closest ships on either side of the screen is 10 km as a minimum.
Now, one of the smallest ships I can find have a volume of 28,100 m^3. That's a radius of 19 meters. Try spotting those in a field that is tens of thousands meters across. Even if we go up to mid size ships like T2 Battlecruisers we only find a volume of 234,000 m^3, which is sphere with a diameter of 39 meters. Not going to be easy to spot either.
Essentially you're trying to spot the zodiacs in a carrier group picture. And keep in mind that the aircraft carrier in that picture is shorter that the radius of the Titan sphere.
Now, obviously the Titans aren't spheres. That is obvious from the pictures. They're probably on the order of two kilometre+ in length. Essentially the only thing we're seeing in the video is two elephants bluff charging on top of an anthill. It's going to be very boring to watch at a distance, but get up close and you'll see the ants scurrying about trying to fix their nest. But that's not something you can really show in these kinds of videos - that's something you can show in movies with large budgets.
And when you have weapons that can shoot hundreds if not thousands of kilometres in less than a second, and your ship cannot possibly get out of the line of fire, because it is simply too large a target, why would manoeuvring ever be important? It's important for the small ships, but in any kind of meaningful battle of this kind (meaning the ships are moving at identical vectors at almost identical speeds), the only thing manoeuvring can help you with when your ship is several hundred meters across, is turning to present the smallest cross section possible or present the biggest armour to the enemy. If the ship is small, then you can talk about dog fighting and running around trying not to get hit. But if you're watching that, you're going to miss out on the big picture.
There are what? 300+ huge ships all clustered together in a box that appears to be no larger than maybe 10 ships on each side. It's absolutely cramped. Where should they go? If you're in the middle, you're fucked, because if you start moving about, you've just turned yourself and the ships around you into kinetic missiles.
Those on the outer edges of the box could move around, sure. They can back away. But if they have to turn around to face their engines towards the centre mass and their weapons away, that's a complete waste of time from their perspective.
3) Don't play doctor. You should have stopped that by the time you left the 1st grade.
Well, there's more than one thing called 'playing doctor' and the one I have in mind shouldn't be played by 1st graders. But on the plus side it does usually involve a nurse's uniform...
If it's accurate to 30 meters, that could easily result in very impossible to navigate slopes for bicycles. I know plenty of small roads around here, that have inclines of 25 meters in less than 100 meters, and that is pretty close to impossible to drive up (they're gravel roads, and I can make wheel spin, going backwards in a high gear).
Well, I would think a good way to encourage researchers to work for them, would be to offer scholarships to their own university to their employees' children, provided they have the grades to get in.
A few years ago I was part of a group interviewing a prominent researcher from Cornell for a position at a Canadian university (he was originally Canadian, educated in Canada). His reasons for coming back were [...] (2) inability to pay for a decent post secondary education for his children[...]
As others have said, if the comments are along the lines of
i++;//increment i
then it's just complete rubbish.
What I would like to see though, is some very complicated encryption algorithm with and without useful comments (useful being the why). See which of them are easier for the average developer to get a grasp of.
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The interesting bit with that extended border thing, is that technically the airport any international flight lands at is a border. That adds an extra 31,416 square miles of border that they're allowed to search at all times. With a total area of 3,794,101 square miles they only need 120 perfectly placed airports with an 'international border point' to cover all of the US.
How many already exist?
How does someone living in Europe not know Ove Sprogø as Egon Olsen? I mean that movie series was made in Denmark.
I misread that as investing 1k a month and though "yes, probably slightly above market average"
It gets worse. Neither word looks like "IRAQ", "AL QUEDA" or "TERRORISM".
Obviously they are trying to hide something.
If you can't use substance A, use substance B which is cheaper to use than substance Q.
Substance Q may be completely harmless and substance B might make your eyes rot if you look at it for more than ten seconds, but if B is legal, doesn't the company have a legal obligation to their shareholders to use B instead of Q, when Q is 10 times as expensive?
Instead of being shocked or dismayed, he actually laughs at it. That is, to me, the best possible way he could react. The only thing that could have made it better, would have been if he had said something like "well, you've just earned yourself a new phone".
Well, start with a less expansive idea.
Make a pressure, temperature and moisture sensitive skin for a dildo, so you it can record exactly how it is being handled.
Make an artificial vagina that can simulate these.
Hook it up to the internet and have at it.
It says ~25K not -25k. The tilde (~) usually means approximately in written English.
Even naked pictures of an adult woman, standing in front of a completely white background, on a completely white floor, doing nothing, holding nothing, being covered in nothing is not necessarily going to arouse an adult heterosexual male.
Even if we insist that the people in question be between 18 and 36, and thus age-wise capable of reproduction. Even if we rule out immediate family.
I very very much doubt, that even a minimal majority of the random sampling of men chosen for the study, would find this woman (be warned) arousing. Granted, IF we choose our sample from cultures where that particular body shape might be considered attractive, then this woman (again, be warned) would not be seen as arousing. In fact, I think you'll have a hard time finding many men in western societies that find either arousing.
Hrmm ... interesting experiment.
Try your very best to 'flirt' with the person who's going to pat you down. Moan softly but audibly when they start. They start up high, so try to press your chest against their hand.
I'm very curious about the number of times, the pat-down is completed along with the distribution amongst gender, age groups and race.
I think that's a reaction to the nitroglycerin. I've heard that referred to as "bang head"
Well, that part was just incredibly stupid.
If you are suspecting something bad, why would you want to open the container? If it's an liquid explosive of some sort, how do you know that it won't react badly to the air? It could be sealed in a nitrogen environment. How do you know it's not a biological weapon? Chemical weapon?
Since the sensors say 'TNT' and your eyes tell you it's not TNT, my gut reaction is to call in a crew that knows what to do with ptentially dangerous substances that might have been in contact with TNT, might be some kind of new explosive, chemical or biological weapon.
What I wouldn't do when handling an unknown substance is take a deep breath and try to guess what it is. For all I know it could be some way of storing Hydrogen Flouride in such a way, that upon contact with air, it will release a couple of gallons of it into the air. Or how about Sarin gas in a new kind of liquid containment?
Whomever opened those bottles should be fired for completely neglegent behaviour and wilfully exposing the public to an unknown and potentially lethal danger. Actually, bring criminal charges against them as well.
TV watches you?
I realise I only used part of the sentence, but it was almost begging to be used like that ;)
Remember that even possessing child pornography is a federal offence or something like that in the US. Even (probably especially) if you then delete the pictures without notifying the authorities.
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone were to send one of these picture frames to all the federal politicians in the US. And then made sure their particular frame would pull up such pictures? Instant slammer time for all politicians. Imagine how much fun the news networks would have with that.
</evil grin>
The explanation for it being "boring" is the same explanation as to why an two elephants walking across an anthill looks boring - you're not watching the details.
One of the Titans they talk about in the summary is an Avatar. It has a volume of 155,000,000 m^3. If they were completely completely spherical, they'd have a radius of 333 meters.
In the opening of the battle (post jump I suppose?) I see at least 6 titans on "our" side of the camera. I'm guessing the distance between the closest ships on either side of the screen is 10 km as a minimum.
Now, one of the smallest ships I can find have a volume of 28,100 m^3. That's a radius of 19 meters. Try spotting those in a field that is tens of thousands meters across. Even if we go up to mid size ships like T2 Battlecruisers we only find a volume of 234,000 m^3, which is sphere with a diameter of 39 meters. Not going to be easy to spot either.
Essentially you're trying to spot the zodiacs in a carrier group picture. And keep in mind that the aircraft carrier in that picture is shorter that the radius of the Titan sphere.
Now, obviously the Titans aren't spheres. That is obvious from the pictures. They're probably on the order of two kilometre+ in length. Essentially the only thing we're seeing in the video is two elephants bluff charging on top of an anthill. It's going to be very boring to watch at a distance, but get up close and you'll see the ants scurrying about trying to fix their nest. But that's not something you can really show in these kinds of videos - that's something you can show in movies with large budgets.
And when you have weapons that can shoot hundreds if not thousands of kilometres in less than a second, and your ship cannot possibly get out of the line of fire, because it is simply too large a target, why would manoeuvring ever be important? It's important for the small ships, but in any kind of meaningful battle of this kind (meaning the ships are moving at identical vectors at almost identical speeds), the only thing manoeuvring can help you with when your ship is several hundred meters across, is turning to present the smallest cross section possible or present the biggest armour to the enemy. If the ship is small, then you can talk about dog fighting and running around trying not to get hit. But if you're watching that, you're going to miss out on the big picture.
Look again.
There are what? 300+ huge ships all clustered together in a box that appears to be no larger than maybe 10 ships on each side. It's absolutely cramped. Where should they go? If you're in the middle, you're fucked, because if you start moving about, you've just turned yourself and the ships around you into kinetic missiles.
Those on the outer edges of the box could move around, sure. They can back away. But if they have to turn around to face their engines towards the centre mass and their weapons away, that's a complete waste of time from their perspective.
I don't even play the game, nor have I ever done so, but to me it seemed a bit like the space battle scene from Serenity just multiplied by ten and with MUCH bigger ships. The only reason the Serenity scene looks as intense as it does, is we're following a tiny ship in the midst of a massive battle. But if you look closely, the only big ships moving about are the Reaver ships, and that's because they were already moving when they came out of the cloud.
"I reject your reality and substitute my pants"?
It's more like saying "Oral sex can't get you pregnant".
Well, there's more than one thing called 'playing doctor' and the one I have in mind shouldn't be played by 1st graders. But on the plus side it does usually involve a nurse's uniform ...
If it's accurate to 30 meters, that could easily result in very impossible to navigate slopes for bicycles. I know plenty of small roads around here, that have inclines of 25 meters in less than 100 meters, and that is pretty close to impossible to drive up (they're gravel roads, and I can make wheel spin, going backwards in a high gear).
Well, I would think a good way to encourage researchers to work for them, would be to offer scholarships to their own university to their employees' children, provided they have the grades to get in.
That a prominent researcher from Cornell is unable to pay for decent post secondary education for his children.
That's rather insane.
Obviously he has watched so much porn, he is now unable to make a proper argument.
As others have said, if the comments are along the lines of
then it's just complete rubbish.
What I would like to see though, is some very complicated encryption algorithm with and without useful comments (useful being the why). See which of them are easier for the average developer to get a grasp of.