Oh, yeah... you bet. And don't think the City fathers in KL and Chicago didn't jump up and down a lot when this 'Council on Tall Buildings' met to decide how to measure.
'Mine is bigger than yours!'
'Is not!'
'Is so!'
'Wait, let's solve this objectively... do you measure from the pubic bone or from the base of the scrotum?'
'We need a Council on Large Genitals to come up with a standard!'
That's right - 'tallest building' and 'busiest airport' don't technically belong to us Chicagoans anymore, unless you start arguing semantics.
Took my son to the observation deck of the Sears Tower last year when he had a day off school and I decided to skip work to spend the day with him. The people there said that the Sears was no longer the tallest free-standing structure anymore, but it is still has the highest occupied floor of any building in the world.
Just like the airport. O'Hare used to be the 'busiest' until Atlanta's Hartsfield surpassed it in number of flights. That doesn't stop Chicago from still claiming it is the busiest, as long as you measure number of people who pass though each year instead of number of flights in and out. (although I thought Alanta passed Chicago for that too now).
Ok, so no, this is a launch system, not a satellite. They already make satellites.
"We have already shown the world that we can build successful commercial satellites," he continues. "Now if we prove that we can launch it correctly, it would be the next step."
The article says they want to be able to deliver a complete solution, build a satellite and put it in orbit for the customer. Hope they have a better success than the Chinese Long March failures.
>Basically, if you've got Tivo, why would you watch the ads?
Maybe they aren't really interested in TiVo users at all. But what they can find out by looking at the detailed info they get from TiVo users can be extrapolated in some way to general TV viewers?
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hear that? that's the sound of the russian space agency kicking themselves in the ass for not thinking of that!:-)
(probably a troll, but I'll respond anyway)
Remember how big that Saturn V booster had to be to get the Apollo craft out of earth orbit towards the moon? Most of that was the 1st & 2nd stage boosters to get the 3rd stage and the CM+LEM into orbit. The 3rd stage booster was then fired from orbit to get the CM+LEM going fast enough to reach escape velocity.
Now think about how much bigger MIR is than the Apollo craft.
Sending up a tug to force the thing into the atmosphere is the only practical solution which is why they did it.
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I saw that too, guess the fishing has been too good in that area for what otherwise has been a difficult season for those guys.
But this got me wondering, how big a splash will this make? The chances of being hit have got to be incredibly small, but how close would you have to be to where it hits for the wave (or flying chunks of molten space station that go flying from the impact?) to be any kind of a problem? (don't have any idea how big/small these fishing boats would be, probably pretty big to operate on the open ocean, eh?)
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Space Shuttle Astronaut Jay Apt reported the following:
"We look for the Great Wall of China. Although we can see things as small as airport runways, the Great Wall seems to be made largely of materials that have the same color as the surrounding soil. Despite persistent stories that it can be seen from the moon, the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles up!"
notice he says _almost_ invisible!
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heh, someone at work says she lives next door to a guy who has a y2k bunker who has now boarded up his home (again) and taken his family to an undisclosed location to wait out the re-entry.
man, I guess if you went and hid in a hole in the ground waiting out the y2k apocalypse, it isn't too much of a stretch to get worked up about a russian space-station, huh?
If only that was the real reason (dubya not complaining because he has a sense of humor).
He seems to steer clear of anything to do with Clinton, funny or not. I think it is because his handlers tell him to. There is no political gain at this point in doing otherwise.
Oh man, this is classic. This gets far more exposure than just one AC post moderated down to -1 offtopic
I had no idea how screwey this whole deal was. I remembered a 60 minutes story a long long time ago about how they were harassing and stalking people about this, but I never really get any details about what this OT III thing was.
Gawd, this guy (Hubbard) was really whacked out when he scribbled all this crap about liberating Body Thetans and implanting and all. That in itself is not surprising. Guy drinks and pills himself into an alternate reality and goes off evangelizing it - happens all the time.
What amazes me is that anyone takes this seriously enough to copyright it and then go after websites that post the 'leaked' versions!
Funny though, had they left it alone only the trolls and those that browse at -1 would even have seen it. Now, this is one of the heaviest threads ever on/. and thousands are following links to this posted elsewhere and reading it.
Classic.
Holy shit. I never paid any attention, got the general drift that this was all the result of Hubbard's drug-induced scribblings. Man, the idea that anyone actually takes this seriously is beyond me!
OT 3 is of course in substantial disagreement with conventional geology. Geologists hold that almost all of the volcanoes listed by Hubbard and both Hawaii and Los Palmas came into being far more recently than 75 million years ago. On a simple point of logic, it seems strange that none of these volcanoes was damaged by the explosion of the hydrogen bombs. Hubbard was taking barbiturates and drinking heavily when he wrote this material, according to letters he wrote at the time which are kept from scientologists by the management of Scientology.
Man, gotta go get some of those BT's that are stuck to me audited. I had no idea!
[Man, what a bitch it would be to try to code in Magyar...]
Man, at first you said "Marglar" - now THAT would be a bitch!!
#!/usr/bin/marglar
$marglar = "Marglar!";
marglar "Hello there. What is your marglar?\n";
$you =;
marglar($you);
marglar "Hello, $you. Marglar to $marglar.\n";
(Slightly obscure South Park reference...)
(sorry, someone pointed a gun to my head and made me repost this for you... on second though, maybe that wasn't really a gun... ewwwww!)
I don't know what you consider 'random spam', but the kind I always get has a web url they want you to go to, not an email address to reply to. Mail I get is usually from forged hotmail addresses. Sending to abuse@hotmail.com is a waste of time and signing up for porn mailing lists even moreso.
>Seems pretty obvious that they're just talking trash, not that anybody plans to actually go rape her.
Agreed, however it is _very_ poor judgement.
I know the original post was about an 'open an shot case for lawyers'... I don't see any criminal case here, either.
But... what was the business relationship here? Was this female webmaster here in any way considered an employee? eFront is in the business of buying these websites, right? Man you have got to be _ultra_ careful about sexual harassment these days.
I used to think that SH was about propositioning someone in order for them to keep their job or get a promo. It isn't anywhere near that narrow.
I had to go to a 'sexual harassment orientation' session at work. Man, there are a lot of things that can land you in court. From what I heard in the class, saying 'rape her and spit on her' in the context of someone you work with could get you in trouble pretty easily.
Plus, it is a fascinating insight into this cretin's mindset. Saying 'F her' or something like that is one thing, saying 'rape', even if he obviously never intended to actually do anything like that is just fucked.
>i'm sure we've all said worse when we're under the pretense that we're talking privately among friends
I wouldn't. Shit like that _always_ comes back to haunt you. I can see saying something like 'i'd like to break her neck' - that's more the kind of thing people say casually and no one would take notice unless she turned up dead.
But rape? There is so much wrong with someone 'joking' about raping a woman in retaliation for some problem that I don't even know where to start.
On the whole, I agree with you that posting logs of 'private' conversations seems wrong and/. linking to them is questionable. But c'mon, even _I_ know that anything you say over IRC or ICQ can be logged and posted and I would have the good sense to be careful about what I said.
I'm sorry, but if this guy was really stupid enough to spill all that kind of horseshit over ICQ, I have no sympathy for is 'privacy'. As for/. posting this story - made for a damn entertaining read between compiles and cups of coffee on a Sunday AM.
Yep, I've heard the same comments made about the home movie/VHS industry. The porn guys blaze the trail and push the envelope with new distribution channels for their wares.
My least favorite example of porn exploitation of a new technology: javascript
We got a 'Cirque de Soleil' DVD for xMas that has the multiple angles feature. First time I'd seen this actually used. Really neat.
In this case the alternate angles were only for short durations (during some of the acts like the woman balancing on one hand for 20 minutes). There was a little flashing icon in the corner to tell you that the scene had miltiple angles. Very neat.
I'd love to see this used for more stuff. Hell, I might even have to talk the wife into a couple porn DVDs just to check this out.;-)
good. why don't you go buy the matrix on dvd, pull your tv out to the garage and start charging people $3 to come watch. since you own your copy and you can do whatever you want with it, this could be a nice little money maker.
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'Mine is bigger than yours!'
'Is not!'
'Is so!'
'Wait, let's solve this objectively... do you measure from the pubic bone or from the base of the scrotum?'
'We need a Council on Large Genitals to come up with a standard!'
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Just like the airport. O'Hare used to be the 'busiest' until Atlanta's Hartsfield surpassed it in number of flights. That doesn't stop Chicago from still claiming it is the busiest, as long as you measure number of people who pass though each year instead of number of flights in and out. (although I thought Alanta passed Chicago for that too now).
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"We have already shown the world that we can build successful commercial satellites," he continues. "Now if we prove that we can launch it correctly, it would be the next step."
The article says they want to be able to deliver a complete solution, build a satellite and put it in orbit for the customer. Hope they have a better success than the Chinese Long March failures.
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Ok, I'll go read the article now.
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Maybe they aren't really interested in TiVo users at all. But what they can find out by looking at the detailed info they get from TiVo users can be extrapolated in some way to general TV viewers?
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(probably a troll, but I'll respond anyway)
Remember how big that Saturn V booster had to be to get the Apollo craft out of earth orbit towards the moon? Most of that was the 1st & 2nd stage boosters to get the 3rd stage and the CM+LEM into orbit. The 3rd stage booster was then fired from orbit to get the CM+LEM going fast enough to reach escape velocity.
Now think about how much bigger MIR is than the Apollo craft.
Sending up a tug to force the thing into the atmosphere is the only practical solution which is why they did it.
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But this got me wondering, how big a splash will this make? The chances of being hit have got to be incredibly small, but how close would you have to be to where it hits for the wave (or flying chunks of molten space station that go flying from the impact?) to be any kind of a problem? (don't have any idea how big/small these fishing boats would be, probably pretty big to operate on the open ocean, eh?)
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"We look for the Great Wall of China. Although we can see things as small as airport runways, the Great Wall seems to be made largely of materials that have the same color as the surrounding soil. Despite persistent stories that it can be seen from the moon, the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles up!"
notice he says _almost_ invisible!
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man, I guess if you went and hid in a hole in the ground waiting out the y2k apocalypse, it isn't too much of a stretch to get worked up about a russian space-station, huh?
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thanks for the grin on my Thrusday am
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Seriously, Nancy's relationship with her astrologer during her lifetime and during her years in the Whitehouse is pretty well documented.
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If only that was the real reason (dubya not complaining because he has a sense of humor).
He seems to steer clear of anything to do with Clinton, funny or not. I think it is because his handlers tell him to. There is no political gain at this point in doing otherwise.
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I had no idea how screwey this whole deal was. I remembered a 60 minutes story a long long time ago about how they were harassing and stalking people about this, but I never really get any details about what this OT III thing was.
Gawd, this guy (Hubbard) was really whacked out when he scribbled all this crap about liberating Body Thetans and implanting and all. That in itself is not surprising. Guy drinks and pills himself into an alternate reality and goes off evangelizing it - happens all the time.
What amazes me is that anyone takes this seriously enough to copyright it and then go after websites that post the 'leaked' versions!
Funny though, had they left it alone only the trolls and those that browse at -1 would even have seen it. Now, this is one of the heaviest threads ever on
Classic.
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OT 3 is of course in substantial disagreement with conventional geology. Geologists hold that almost all of the volcanoes listed by Hubbard and both Hawaii and Los Palmas came into being far more recently than 75 million years ago. On a simple point of logic, it seems strange that none of these volcanoes was damaged by the explosion of the hydrogen bombs. Hubbard was taking barbiturates and drinking heavily when he wrote this material, according to letters he wrote at the time which are kept from scientologists by the management of Scientology.
Man, gotta go get some of those BT's that are stuck to me audited. I had no idea!
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[Man, what a bitch it would be to try to code in Magyar...]
Man, at first you said "Marglar" - now THAT would be a bitch!!
#!/usr/bin/marglar ;
$marglar = "Marglar!";
marglar "Hello there. What is your marglar?\n";
$you =
marglar($you);
marglar "Hello, $you. Marglar to $marglar.\n";
(Slightly obscure South Park reference...)
(sorry, someone pointed a gun to my head and made me repost this for you... on second though, maybe that wasn't really a gun... ewwwww!)
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No, not at all.
>or is it over your head?
Guess it is over mine too.
I don't know what you consider 'random spam', but the kind I always get has a web url they want you to go to, not an email address to reply to. Mail I get is usually from forged hotmail addresses. Sending to abuse@hotmail.com is a waste of time and signing up for porn mailing lists even moreso.
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Agreed, however it is _very_ poor judgement.
I know the original post was about an 'open an shot case for lawyers'... I don't see any criminal case here, either.
But... what was the business relationship here? Was this female webmaster here in any way considered an employee? eFront is in the business of buying these websites, right? Man you have got to be _ultra_ careful about sexual harassment these days.
I used to think that SH was about propositioning someone in order for them to keep their job or get a promo. It isn't anywhere near that narrow.
I had to go to a 'sexual harassment orientation' session at work. Man, there are a lot of things that can land you in court. From what I heard in the class, saying 'rape her and spit on her' in the context of someone you work with could get you in trouble pretty easily.
Plus, it is a fascinating insight into this cretin's mindset. Saying 'F her' or something like that is one thing, saying 'rape', even if he obviously never intended to actually do anything like that is just fucked.
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I wouldn't. Shit like that _always_ comes back to haunt you. I can see saying something like 'i'd like to break her neck' - that's more the kind of thing people say casually and no one would take notice unless she turned up dead.
But rape? There is so much wrong with someone 'joking' about raping a woman in retaliation for some problem that I don't even know where to start.
On the whole, I agree with you that posting logs of 'private' conversations seems wrong and
I'm sorry, but if this guy was really stupid enough to spill all that kind of horseshit over ICQ, I have no sympathy for is 'privacy'. As for
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In this case the alternate angles were only for short durations (during some of the acts like the woman balancing on one hand for 20 minutes). There was a little flashing icon in the corner to tell you that the scene had miltiple angles. Very neat.
I'd love to see this used for more stuff. Hell, I might even have to talk the wife into a couple porn DVDs just to check this out.
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