Not even military. Germany has foreign and domestic intelligence agencies - the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), respectively. They don't need the po-po's helicopter to check for antennae. They already know or can reasonably guess what intercept equipment is on-site at the consulate (and other sites).
If this stunt's goals were any more transparent, birds would be smashing into them with the frequency of that Hot Butter song.
What I'm looking for is an actor-well-past-his-prime-and-forced-to-do-crappy- movies-like-Inspector-Gadget-probably-because-he-m arried-that-horrid-looking-Sarah-Jessica-Parker PVR.
Or maybe a Bobcat Goldthwait PVR. Something to use in my Evening At The Improv shrine.
Come on, engineers. Give us something we REALLY want.
I mean, isn't it obvious? The videogame's parents must not've given it enough attention during the early formative years. They probably let it watch as much TV as it wanted, eat junk food, read dirty magazines.
Come on, let's stop passing the buck and put the blame squarely on the Super Mario cartridge and the X-Wing collector's edition CD who had unprotected sex on the dirty matress behind the YMCA.
The International Centre for Jesus Christ How Did You Get Funding published a report this week concluding that the Mona Lisa was most likely a painting.
"It was a long hard battle," said Chief Researcher Mike Reynolds. "We spent 7 years training an expert system to tell the difference between oil painted on canvas and a Polaroid."
In total, the study required 4.6 million US dollars and the blood, sweat, and tears of an eight man research team.
"You wouldn't believe the troubles we had with this project. It took eight months to convince [the system] that Courtney Love wasn't a first-year art student's attempt at Picasso."
In the end, say detractors, the system achieved a success rate little better than chance.
"All I can say is 'Thank God for the DoD'," responded Reynolds. "They wanted a system that could tell whether someone was, in fact, grinning and/or dropping their linen. We're not there yet, but we'll take a few more million bucks and have another stab at it next year, eh?"
What we generally call "sugar" is named sucrose or dextrose. Sucrose is a disaccharide which means that it's made of two smaller monosaccharides, namely Glucose and Fructose.
One way to reduce the cost of your softdrink or other prepared food is to use something referred to as "Invert Sugar". Here's how you do it:
Take some real sugar, sucrose, and break the bond between the glucose and the fructose, then let them recombine. When you do this, the glucose and fructose actually bond in a different way which makes the substance 1.3 times as sweet as sucrose. It's identical to regular sugar except for that one key bond, and you've instantly cut down the amount you need to add to your product.
So when you read a list of ingredients and it says "Glucose/Fructose", you're likely eating invert sugar.
Incidentally, a natural source of invert sugar is honey.
Wait wait, you're lumping the Mythbusters in the same category as physicists and mathematicians???
Mythbusters is eye candy and nothing more. The "experiments" are just excuses to make things blow up or crash into a wall. Every time I see them proclaim a myth "BUSTED" despite crappy experimental design and lack of creativity/insight I recoil in the horror of a thousand projectile vomiting infants.
It's essentially Junkyard Wars/Scrapheap Challenge, but a whole lot less interesting, IMO... and I'm referring to the UK version of Scrapheap, not the aborted fetus that the american crew ejected from its tainted womb.
And finally, why the hell am I writing this post? - DasBub
This should actually be a far easier problem to solve. Sending a probe after a comet millions upon millions of miles away comes down to one basic problem: getting them to exist within a certain box of space at the same time. To accomplish this, you need to physically move the entire probe to that box. You won't be able to accomplish that with a single engine burn; you'll require multiple course corrections en route because the greater the distance your probe is from the target, the more imprecise the final destination from a single engine burn.
The elements at play here are how well you can maintain the oritentation of the probe while firing the engine, and to what degree the thrust vector lines up with the probe's center of mass.
With the planet imaging system your only concerns are having the two satellites facing each other and maintaining that orientation. For this sort of precision, you wouldn't use maneuvering thrusters, just a series of wheels that can be spun at very precise speeds. Each satellite would also need to display a series of targets at various places on their hulls and use a precise system to determine the ranges and velocities of each target, feed it all in the computer, and use the reaction wheels to change the satellite's orientation.
Once the initial distance and orientation is achieved, any changes in distance or orientation would only require very small corrections.
Although the US military did have some sort of difficulty setting up a laser communications system between an earlier series of spy satellites... Back in the 70s or early 80s, I believe. For some reason they had trouble finding each other and keeping their gazes locked. I'm sure it's all been fixed in the past 20-30 years:)
If you re-read the article you'd notice that the amber-coloured water was after four filtering steps, not the entire six.
After the amber stage is reached, it goes through two more filters and then chlorine is added to keep the water from getting funky while waiting to be dispensed.
So chlorine isn't used as a filtering agent, more of a preservative.
When I was growing up, astrology was becoming a keen area of study
Uhhh what? I find it difficult to listen to people who don't know the difference between Astrology and Astronomy.
As for the site, what exactly constitutes a "clean" interplanetary propulsion system??!?!?!? It's SPACE. I'll give you a million dollars if you can tell me how exactly a propulsion system is going to "pollute" interplanetary space and how that'll differ from the fictional fusion engines.
That's right, kids. Head out to K-mart as fast as you can and pick up your very own SUPER BRONFMAN action figure!
Watch as he sells off Seagram's 20% stake in DuPont, a stable chemical company with endless quantities of valuable patents and products, to buy MEDIA ASSETS!
Play along as he sells off the Bronfman family's holdings of Seagram, the foundation upon which his grandfather built the family's billions of dollars in assets!
Stare mystified as SUPER BRONFMAN takes all of the money from the Seagram sale and puts it in the hands of Jean-Marie Messier, head of Vivendi... a bottled water company that got into the entertainment business... !
Cringe as Vivendi is taken to the brink of bankruptcy and the Bronfman family loses billions!
Be left speechless as SUPER BRONFMAN, after failing to buy Universal from the tattered remains of Vivendi, settles for Warner Music........ purveyors of such fine musical talent as Kid Rock and Madonna..................
I took this psych course last term and the prof, Dr. Tim Pychyl, used a set of IR clickers to ask about 6-7 questions per class. He had used them in previous classes, and IIRC he actually paid for the system out of his own pocket.
His approach was to close a chapter or topic by asking some fundamental questions about what we had just covered, just to make sure we at least had the basics firmly ingrained. Polling the class was done in one minute as he distributed about 30 clickers to groups of 2-3 students, who could decided amongst themselves what the best answer was. (Keeping it down to 6-7 questions per class allowed everyone a bit of a rest from the lecture without causing us to lose interest as the room waited for a bunch of people to make their decisions)
After polling, we could all see a bar graph of the responses and he would take a few minutes to point out the correct answer and explain why the others were sort of right, but not all the way. I found it really helped get everyone on track... If you were right, you got a little confidence boost. If you were wrong, you were the only one who knew it, and the prof's explanation was enough to clear it up for you.
If any of you folks have a chance to take a class with Tim, I'd highly recommend it.
The noun "Freon" has a double meaning. Strictly speaking, it is the trademark name of refrigerant R-12, a single product of a specific formulation.
Due to its popularity it has become a sort of catch-all term used to describe an entire family of products. Much the same way that all couches can be called Chesterfields or all tissues can be called Kleenex, Freon can be used to describe a family of refrigerants.
As well all know, the actual Freon refrigerant, R-12, has been banned for a decade now. In this way, it is proper to say that no air conditioning unit in the US, Canada, etc., made since 1995 uses Freon.
The currently widespread refrigerant is R-134a, trademark name "Suva". It's chemically different from "Freon", but can be described as being part of the Freon family. This can make casual discussions a bit muddled as everyone argues whether or not Suva is Freon... Well, maybe I'm the only one having that type of casual discussion...
So, to make a short story long:
Freon is a Freon, Suva is a Freon, but Suva is not Freon. Got it?
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I'd ask the German federal police about this. After all, counter-intelligence against foreign state agencies is their bread and butter... (/snark)
Not even military. Germany has foreign and domestic intelligence agencies - the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), respectively. They don't need the po-po's helicopter to check for antennae. They already know or can reasonably guess what intercept equipment is on-site at the consulate (and other sites).
If this stunt's goals were any more transparent, birds would be smashing into them with the frequency of that Hot Butter song.
Godzilla, sure.
- movies-like-Inspector-Gadget-probably-because-he-m arried-that-horrid-looking-Sarah-Jessica-Parker PVR.
What I'm looking for is an actor-well-past-his-prime-and-forced-to-do-crappy
Or maybe a Bobcat Goldthwait PVR. Something to use in my Evening At The Improv shrine.
Come on, engineers. Give us something we REALLY want.
Gibson - 1985 (on a typewritter)
Try again. Written in 1983, published in 1984.
Thanks for playing.
p.s. "typewriter"
I mean, isn't it obvious? The videogame's parents must not've given it enough attention during the early formative years. They probably let it watch as much TV as it wanted, eat junk food, read dirty magazines.
Come on, let's stop passing the buck and put the blame squarely on the Super Mario cartridge and the X-Wing collector's edition CD who had unprotected sex on the dirty matress behind the YMCA.
FOR SHAME!
The International Centre for Jesus Christ How Did You Get Funding published a report this week concluding that the Mona Lisa was most likely a painting.
"It was a long hard battle," said Chief Researcher Mike Reynolds. "We spent 7 years training an expert system to tell the difference between oil painted on canvas and a Polaroid."
In total, the study required 4.6 million US dollars and the blood, sweat, and tears of an eight man research team.
"You wouldn't believe the troubles we had with this project. It took eight months to convince [the system] that Courtney Love wasn't a first-year art student's attempt at Picasso."
In the end, say detractors, the system achieved a success rate little better than chance.
"All I can say is 'Thank God for the DoD'," responded Reynolds. "They wanted a system that could tell whether someone was, in fact, grinning and/or dropping their linen. We're not there yet, but we'll take a few more million bucks and have another stab at it next year, eh?"
Erratum: dextrose is another name for glucose, not sucrose.
:)
My mistake. I assure you, I got it right on the exam
Little bit of chemistry info here...
What we generally call "sugar" is named sucrose or dextrose. Sucrose is a disaccharide which means that it's made of two smaller monosaccharides, namely Glucose and Fructose.
One way to reduce the cost of your softdrink or other prepared food is to use something referred to as "Invert Sugar". Here's how you do it:
Take some real sugar, sucrose, and break the bond between the glucose and the fructose, then let them recombine. When you do this, the glucose and fructose actually bond in a different way which makes the substance 1.3 times as sweet as sucrose. It's identical to regular sugar except for that one key bond, and you've instantly cut down the amount you need to add to your product.
So when you read a list of ingredients and it says "Glucose/Fructose", you're likely eating invert sugar.
Incidentally, a natural source of invert sugar is honey.
Wait wait, you're lumping the Mythbusters in the same category as physicists and mathematicians???
Mythbusters is eye candy and nothing more. The "experiments" are just excuses to make things blow up or crash into a wall. Every time I see them proclaim a myth "BUSTED" despite crappy experimental design and lack of creativity/insight I recoil in the horror of a thousand projectile vomiting infants.
It's essentially Junkyard Wars/Scrapheap Challenge, but a whole lot less interesting, IMO... and I'm referring to the UK version of Scrapheap, not the aborted fetus that the american crew ejected from its tainted womb.
And finally, why the hell am I writing this post? - DasBub
"Two" means two.
...
"Factor" means factor.
This concludes your intensive six-week training course.
But this leads to another question...
Which Doctor would be the spookiest when saying that line?
I vote for Pertwee. Although Colin Baker is rather unsettling.
Piers Anthony. 'nuff said.
This should actually be a far easier problem to solve. Sending a probe after a comet millions upon millions of miles away comes down to one basic problem: getting them to exist within a certain box of space at the same time. To accomplish this, you need to physically move the entire probe to that box. You won't be able to accomplish that with a single engine burn; you'll require multiple course corrections en route because the greater the distance your probe is from the target, the more imprecise the final destination from a single engine burn.
:)
The elements at play here are how well you can maintain the oritentation of the probe while firing the engine, and to what degree the thrust vector lines up with the probe's center of mass.
With the planet imaging system your only concerns are having the two satellites facing each other and maintaining that orientation. For this sort of precision, you wouldn't use maneuvering thrusters, just a series of wheels that can be spun at very precise speeds. Each satellite would also need to display a series of targets at various places on their hulls and use a precise system to determine the ranges and velocities of each target, feed it all in the computer, and use the reaction wheels to change the satellite's orientation.
Once the initial distance and orientation is achieved, any changes in distance or orientation would only require very small corrections.
Although the US military did have some sort of difficulty setting up a laser communications system between an earlier series of spy satellites... Back in the 70s or early 80s, I believe. For some reason they had trouble finding each other and keeping their gazes locked. I'm sure it's all been fixed in the past 20-30 years
I, for one, will put up with aliens in suits knocking on my door every Saturday morning in lieu of them converting me into food.
hmm.. did I just invented a new way to execute people?
No, you just invented a new language and field for psychologial study.
I am taking other people's old ram. And don't call me Shirley.
If you re-read the article you'd notice that the amber-coloured water was after four filtering steps, not the entire six.
After the amber stage is reached, it goes through two more filters and then chlorine is added to keep the water from getting funky while waiting to be dispensed.
So chlorine isn't used as a filtering agent, more of a preservative.
I hear that reading the article is generally a good thing to do before posting.
Thanks for playing.
When I was growing up, astrology was becoming a keen area of study
Uhhh what? I find it difficult to listen to people who don't know the difference between Astrology and Astronomy.
As for the site, what exactly constitutes a "clean" interplanetary propulsion system??!?!?!? It's SPACE. I'll give you a million dollars if you can tell me how exactly a propulsion system is going to "pollute" interplanetary space and how that'll differ from the fictional fusion engines.
That's right, kids. Head out to K-mart as fast as you can and pick up your very own SUPER BRONFMAN action figure!
..... .....
Watch as he sells off Seagram's 20% stake in DuPont, a stable chemical company with endless quantities of valuable patents and products, to buy MEDIA ASSETS!
Play along as he sells off the Bronfman family's holdings of Seagram, the foundation upon which his grandfather built the family's billions of dollars in assets!
Stare mystified as SUPER BRONFMAN takes all of the money from the Seagram sale and puts it in the hands of Jean-Marie Messier, head of Vivendi... a bottled water company that got into the entertainment business... !
Cringe as Vivendi is taken to the brink of bankruptcy and the Bronfman family loses billions!
Be left speechless as SUPER BRONFMAN, after failing to buy Universal from the tattered remains of Vivendi, settles for Warner Music........ purveyors of such fine musical talent as Kid Rock and Madonna........
Act now!
I took this psych course last term and the prof, Dr. Tim Pychyl, used a set of IR clickers to ask about 6-7 questions per class. He had used them in previous classes, and IIRC he actually paid for the system out of his own pocket.
His approach was to close a chapter or topic by asking some fundamental questions about what we had just covered, just to make sure we at least had the basics firmly ingrained. Polling the class was done in one minute as he distributed about 30 clickers to groups of 2-3 students, who could decided amongst themselves what the best answer was. (Keeping it down to 6-7 questions per class allowed everyone a bit of a rest from the lecture without causing us to lose interest as the room waited for a bunch of people to make their decisions)
After polling, we could all see a bar graph of the responses and he would take a few minutes to point out the correct answer and explain why the others were sort of right, but not all the way. I found it really helped get everyone on track... If you were right, you got a little confidence boost. If you were wrong, you were the only one who knew it, and the prof's explanation was enough to clear it up for you.
If any of you folks have a chance to take a class with Tim, I'd highly recommend it.
- DasBub
Let's set the record straight, here.
The noun "Freon" has a double meaning. Strictly speaking, it is the trademark name of refrigerant R-12, a single product of a specific formulation.
Due to its popularity it has become a sort of catch-all term used to describe an entire family of products. Much the same way that all couches can be called Chesterfields or all tissues can be called Kleenex, Freon can be used to describe a family of refrigerants.
As well all know, the actual Freon refrigerant, R-12, has been banned for a decade now. In this way, it is proper to say that no air conditioning unit in the US, Canada, etc., made since 1995 uses Freon.
The currently widespread refrigerant is R-134a, trademark name "Suva". It's chemically different from "Freon", but can be described as being part of the Freon family. This can make casual discussions a bit muddled as everyone argues whether or not Suva is Freon... Well, maybe I'm the only one having that type of casual discussion...
So, to make a short story long:
Freon is a Freon, Suva is a Freon, but Suva is not Freon. Got it?
These are the Piquepailles I know
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In short: Roland, STOP POSTING. Editors, STOP ACCEPTING. May the log of christmas cheer slip from your fire and burn your house down.
I get pissed off.
P.S. stop posting prostoalex submissions, too.
On the contrary, past behavior is the BEST predictor of future performance.
I have to nitpick this. The original poster said that "experience is no guarantee of future performance."
In this, he is right. Past behaviour is indeed the best predictor, but it is by no means a guarantee.