Oh what the *AAs do to people with photographic memories if they had the chance. The future is going to be messy as the distinction between human memory and digital storage blurs...
If they did not emit visible light they would be called black dwarves, otherwise known as gas giant planets. If the rogue gas giant is large enough, the heat caused by it's initial collapse will be sufficient to cause it to glow like a stove element for a very long time because of Blackbody Radiation. Hence the term 'brown' still applies. At 400k, which is not much hotter than a boiling pot of water, there would be no visible light, and this object was obviously found using infrared detection techniques. So 'brown' does not apply here. It's a big planet!
Or better yet, don't give them the good image in the first place. A projector in a classroom computer lab, and a no cell phone camera ought to do well. For homework assignments, a very low res thumbnail printout to jog their memory is all they need.
I find any kind of fun puzzle like work like programming or CAD are only enjoyable outside of a normal work environment. Once you get into the realm of bosses with deadlines of the day before the project start, and customers who don't want to pay, and the fun game of blame the coder drama to get out of contracts but still get the goods, it's not fun anymore. I recommend people code for fun at any age, working in the industry should be approached with great care.
It's pretty easy to blame the Mounties when they don't take it seriously enough to take it to the Crown. It's not like I can phone the Crown Counsel myself and have a word with them. Believe me I've tried.
The individual in our case was female. Had I laid a finger on her, I knew there was probably a 50/50 chance I would have ended up in handcuffs regardless, so I decided not to go there. So instead I opted to shout at her to leave for 15 minutes while on the phone with 911 to record things, until the police arrived. The RCMP officer is still to thick to press charges even though this is a case of stalking that has gone back at least 10 years. He won't even return my calls anymore because there's too many more important cases to deal with. Sheesh...
We believe we have enough evidence for a slam-dunk, including a written confession. I went to legal aid, and victim's services, and they both said it was impossible. Since you seem to have a superior knowledge of law in BC, please explain to me how pursuing civil charges would help things.
Like other laws, that law is utterly toothless if the police don't feel like laying charges. I live in BC, and I had someone push their way into my house after ringing the doorbell. They refused to leave until the police arrived. Despite evidence from the 911 recording, and police finding the person on my property, charges were never laid despite my insistence. RCMP in Canada are a joke.
Wouldn't giving a dead soldier a CT scan be a very dangerous thing to do, considering that the soldier's body could be filled with undetected pieces of metal?
When a SEWING machine can take 10 hours to make an outfit without much skill or interaction in the process, expect to see a resurgence in SEWING machines.
Scope. Brazenness. Ubiquity. It's so far gone in Russia that even the pretense of morality of law is mostly gone, hense the nonsensical reason for the law. The lawmakers know they don't have to make sense, so they just picked whatever reason off the top of their heads and went with it.
The average American would flip out over the law, and point out how unreasonable the law was, as if somehow appealing to reason would actually help matters. The average Russian would understand the true purpose of the law, stoically shrug their shoulders at the status quo, and continue to live their life. It's just another revenue stream for the local WiFi inspector.
I'm sure the people who crafted the law fully understand that there is no way the law makes sense to anyone who isn't interested in randomly punishing people for dumb laws for fun and profit. In Russia, human rights abuse is quite the sport. Everyone is a criminal, and the people who have power love it that way.
This is typical Russian mentality, there are thousands of laws such as this already on the books. The aim is to make every citizen a prosecutable criminal at the governments whim by crafting laws that are impossible to reasonably follow. This allows the government to crack down on criminals they don't like, and leaves the rest of the criminals terrified and compliant. Saying that Russia is a nation populated entirely by criminals is a sadly true statement.
Could this just mean that it eliminates any orientation other than either pole of the solar system facing Earth? Absolutely no planets seems so suspicious...
Don't pay your credit card and see how far that takes you in life. The truth is the system has you by the short and curlies by linking how you pay your credit card with important stuff like getting a mortgage, getting a business loan, getting a decent cell phone, hooking up utilities without paying a ridiculously high deposit, renting a hotel room, or lately, even landing some kinds of jobs.
In my experience, the only people I have met who talk like you are either inexperienced with credit, or fools. We'll see how you talk after your first bankruptcy.
Agreed with a caveat. My NAS has 500gb and up drives... anything else gets consolidated. I tried using those old drives, but I soon realized it just wasn't worth it. The 500gb drive is going byebye soon too. After a certain point, the empty slot and power draw becomes valuable real estate that could be populated by a larger drive. Slow speed becomes a factor for obsolescence in some cases as well.
What smaller drives, even the 80-120gb types, are good for, is boot drives for crappy refurbished computers for grandma, or the kid down the street who has nothing. They can always upgrade, but it's great for starter and old systems for people who won't be downloading very much.
As a Canadian, I would have been happy with eliminating the nickel too. That way, they stick with a nice round decimal system, and drop one zero from all commonly used monetary calculations. 10 dimes makes a dollar, so a dollar and thirty dimes would be written $1.3. Newly printed dimes wouldn't say "10 cents" on them, they would say "1 dime". That way the dime becomes the new penny as the smallest denomination of coin. This would eliminate all confusing rounding rule. It also makes sense because dimes are the physically smallest coin anyways.
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Any bets they will get web access in the juvenile detention centre?
Oh what the *AAs do to people with photographic memories if they had the chance. The future is going to be messy as the distinction between human memory and digital storage blurs...
It's almost like walking into a library and reading any book you want.
If they did not emit visible light they would be called black dwarves, otherwise known as gas giant planets. If the rogue gas giant is large enough, the heat caused by it's initial collapse will be sufficient to cause it to glow like a stove element for a very long time because of Blackbody Radiation. Hence the term 'brown' still applies. At 400k, which is not much hotter than a boiling pot of water, there would be no visible light, and this object was obviously found using infrared detection techniques. So 'brown' does not apply here. It's a big planet!
Or better yet, don't give them the good image in the first place. A projector in a classroom computer lab, and a no cell phone camera ought to do well. For homework assignments, a very low res thumbnail printout to jog their memory is all they need.
I find any kind of fun puzzle like work like programming or CAD are only enjoyable outside of a normal work environment. Once you get into the realm of bosses with deadlines of the day before the project start, and customers who don't want to pay, and the fun game of blame the coder drama to get out of contracts but still get the goods, it's not fun anymore. I recommend people code for fun at any age, working in the industry should be approached with great care.
It's pretty easy to blame the Mounties when they don't take it seriously enough to take it to the Crown. It's not like I can phone the Crown Counsel myself and have a word with them. Believe me I've tried.
The individual in our case was female. Had I laid a finger on her, I knew there was probably a 50/50 chance I would have ended up in handcuffs regardless, so I decided not to go there. So instead I opted to shout at her to leave for 15 minutes while on the phone with 911 to record things, until the police arrived. The RCMP officer is still to thick to press charges even though this is a case of stalking that has gone back at least 10 years. He won't even return my calls anymore because there's too many more important cases to deal with. Sheesh...
We believe we have enough evidence for a slam-dunk, including a written confession. I went to legal aid, and victim's services, and they both said it was impossible. Since you seem to have a superior knowledge of law in BC, please explain to me how pursuing civil charges would help things.
Like other laws, that law is utterly toothless if the police don't feel like laying charges. I live in BC, and I had someone push their way into my house after ringing the doorbell. They refused to leave until the police arrived. Despite evidence from the 911 recording, and police finding the person on my property, charges were never laid despite my insistence. RCMP in Canada are a joke.
Wouldn't giving a dead soldier a CT scan be a very dangerous thing to do, considering that the soldier's body could be filled with undetected pieces of metal?
When a SEWING machine can take 10 hours to make an outfit without much skill or interaction in the process, expect to see a resurgence in SEWING machines.
How right you are. I have no doubt certain terrestrial soil organisms would do just fine if they were transplanted to Mars.
Scope. Brazenness. Ubiquity. It's so far gone in Russia that even the pretense of morality of law is mostly gone, hense the nonsensical reason for the law. The lawmakers know they don't have to make sense, so they just picked whatever reason off the top of their heads and went with it.
The average American would flip out over the law, and point out how unreasonable the law was, as if somehow appealing to reason would actually help matters. The average Russian would understand the true purpose of the law, stoically shrug their shoulders at the status quo, and continue to live their life. It's just another revenue stream for the local WiFi inspector.
I'm sure the people who crafted the law fully understand that there is no way the law makes sense to anyone who isn't interested in randomly punishing people for dumb laws for fun and profit. In Russia, human rights abuse is quite the sport. Everyone is a criminal, and the people who have power love it that way.
This is typical Russian mentality, there are thousands of laws such as this already on the books. The aim is to make every citizen a prosecutable criminal at the governments whim by crafting laws that are impossible to reasonably follow. This allows the government to crack down on criminals they don't like, and leaves the rest of the criminals terrified and compliant. Saying that Russia is a nation populated entirely by criminals is a sadly true statement.
I wish they would stop showing gruesome murder victims too. Especially that old one of that guy nailed to a piece of wood. Yuck.
An odd number of cores. Perhaps they have 4 cores, each controlling 16 CPUs. Or 4 cores set aside for other purposes?
Could this just mean that it eliminates any orientation other than either pole of the solar system facing Earth? Absolutely no planets seems so suspicious...
"If you look at the biggest mass murders in human history, every single one of them was a government official. Think about that for a while."
Most politicians use twitter these days. This should be interesting.
Don't pay your credit card and see how far that takes you in life. The truth is the system has you by the short and curlies by linking how you pay your credit card with important stuff like getting a mortgage, getting a business loan, getting a decent cell phone, hooking up utilities without paying a ridiculously high deposit, renting a hotel room, or lately, even landing some kinds of jobs. In my experience, the only people I have met who talk like you are either inexperienced with credit, or fools. We'll see how you talk after your first bankruptcy.
The court found he was not trying to bomb the government. After 11 months in jail for no reason, he certainly has the motive to do it now.
Agreed with a caveat. My NAS has 500gb and up drives... anything else gets consolidated. I tried using those old drives, but I soon realized it just wasn't worth it. The 500gb drive is going byebye soon too. After a certain point, the empty slot and power draw becomes valuable real estate that could be populated by a larger drive. Slow speed becomes a factor for obsolescence in some cases as well.
What smaller drives, even the 80-120gb types, are good for, is boot drives for crappy refurbished computers for grandma, or the kid down the street who has nothing. They can always upgrade, but it's great for starter and old systems for people who won't be downloading very much.
Ooops I wrote "thirty dimes", when I meant" thirty cents". My bad.
As a Canadian, I would have been happy with eliminating the nickel too. That way, they stick with a nice round decimal system, and drop one zero from all commonly used monetary calculations. 10 dimes makes a dollar, so a dollar and thirty dimes would be written $1.3. Newly printed dimes wouldn't say "10 cents" on them, they would say "1 dime". That way the dime becomes the new penny as the smallest denomination of coin. This would eliminate all confusing rounding rule. It also makes sense because dimes are the physically smallest coin anyways.
Dime for your thoughts?