For decades (since before I got a driving license, at age 28, and since), I have strongly promoted that people should only get their driving license issued for a decade and then should automatically lose it. No if, no buts, no maybes. You go to sleep one night with a driving license and the next day you wake up not licensed to drive a car. If you haven't booked time off work to sit your driving test on that day, then you have now got a problem, including getting to work, if you drive to work.
It is well known that 90% of people think (incorrectly) that they are a better than average driver. Automatically needing to re-sit AND re-pass your driving test on a regular basis may help to disabuse people of this erroneous notion. Also, since driving conditions and laws do change on a regular basis, people's tuition about driving and skill sets do need to be changed on a regular basis. And we know by experience that people will not undertake that tuition voluntarily.
Shockingly, this implies that people should READ contracts that they have proposed to them BEFORE signalling their agreement to the terms of the contract by applying a signature to it (or in some other manner - let's not waste time on the old canard about a contract being as good as the paper it's written on).
I know it is a heresy in this millennial world of spoon-feeding with pre-digested pap but your granny's advice about reading contracts before you sign them remain good advice.
A note for myself : if I find myself in the position of being a landlord again (perfectly plausible) I should include a clause about butt-fucking the tenant (let's not be sexist here - I don't need to re-write the contract for different genders) for free every second Friday, and doing them bareback during contract negotiations. Just to see if they actually do read the fucking thing.
Well, it has been done in most of the world, so it's not actually impossible. Britain had essentially completed replacing public water infrastructure with lead-free materials (principally alkathene - a form of polythene, I think, with coatings) some time back in the 1980s, having started back in the 1960s. My parents house got done in the mid-80s and since I entered the housing market in the 1990s I've never seen lead piping, or lead-containing solder in any plumbing supplier. The stuff simply cannot be brought. It doesn't get made any more.
There probably is lead plumbing still in individual old houses. But whenever anyone needs to do any plumbing repairs, they simply cannot obtain parts and fittings to connect to existing lead plumbing, so have no option but to rip out and replace. Or stop using that part of the system, which has the desired effect.
20-odd comments in before someone names the elephant in the room.
I assume that once the parents started trying to track him down, they switched from using nightsticks on his feet to using electric cable - it leaves fewer marks.
Which part of "principal object [...] to uphold or promote [..] philosophical or humanitarian convictions" doesn't include "to show that religions are ridiculous" ?
FYI, I'm an ordained minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So anyone wanting to pay my air fare to NZ in return for a solemnisation is welcome to do so.
The concrete foundations would either remain, or if they're judged to be a hazard to shipping they'd be blasted into small pieces and left in the sea
The rules that we have to adhere to in the oil industry in the same waters is to clear the seabed to 6ft below current mudline. And I've been on rigs when we've been doing this - which sometimes involves large amounts of explosives. If you happen to be driving between Aberdeen's East (Dyce) heliport and the city centre, you'll see a sculpture made from a piece of 20in casing that has been treated this way. (Or is it 18 in? I've never actually taken a tape measure to it to check.)
Even if it weren't the law, and the area wasn't one that was regularly trawled, then the fact that the area of the wind farm is routinely used for a holding pattern for ships waiting for a pilot boat into the harbour would discourage cavalier leaving of remains on the seabed.
Is connecting to the internet important for playing games? Oolite doesn't need that. CIV doesn't need that. Doom didn't (did it? - it's been a decade or so since I played it)
The ESA is publicly funded - as are most of it's collaborating institutions. Quite likely a significant number of the people intended to have read-write access to their data systems are aware that they information they contain are the property of the people who paid for the data. i.e., everyone. So the only sensible reason for using passwords is to prevent vandalism of the databases. and nobody in their right mind is going to be interested in vandalising a "public good" such as the records that may help our species become a multi-ecosystem species.
It speaks of a slightly worrying degree of optimism about human nature, but nothing worse than that.
While it's not untrue that the passwords in question are 4 or fewer characters long, it is far more significant (about 500 times more significant per digit, not that I've completely memorised my log(10) tables) that they are digits, not general purpose characters.
Within some of the countries that make up the UK, they also use proportional representation. We don't all suffer from the "English Disease".
Unfortunately, this also results in anomalies such as a political party that was almost completely obliterated at the election, being the party in power. But I honestly don't think that is going to last much longer - along with the UK.
(We did not even suspect that birds came from dinosaurs when I was a child but we did study evolution.)
Wow, that would make you about 160, maybe even 180 (I forget when the Saurischian/ Ornithischian split within the dinosaurs was recognised, even though it's confusing to this question).
Archaeopteryx lithographica, the first specimen, was found in 1860 and described in 1861. The first skeletal specimen was found a few weeks or months later (the exact date of discovery of the feather isn't quite clear) and reported much more quickly. Ever since then, it has been game over for non-dinosaur origins for birds. (Pterosaurs, Mosasaurs and Ichthyosaurs are all, of course, not dinosaurs even though they were contemporaneous with the dinosaurs.)
A good example is how so many things keep turning out to be much older than we expected.
If you think for one second about it, the probability that the first fossil of an X which you find is actually a very early specimen of the type of animals classed as X, is quite low. It is only in quite rare circumstances (Solenhofen, of Archaeopteryx fame being a rare example) that you get essentially 100% removal of rock from an area, and close examination of that rock for fossils. (At Solenhofen, this was because of the need for flawless slabs of very fine limestone for printing.) Otherwise, the fossils which are found are a sample (with statistical biases) of the fossils which are in the rock, and the fossils which are in the rock are themselves a sample of the organisms which were present in the environment. So, the likelihood is that the first time you find (and identify) an X, it is from some significant time after the first appearance of X.
(I forgot to mention the biases in identification of fossils. People do make mistakes ; the 8th Archaeopteryx specimen spent some decades under a label of "a Pterosaur arm" until properly identified in the 1970s.)
So, you have a nice crumple zone at the front, and a rigid back end to the car. Safety cell in the middle to protect the passengers.
You now have someone rear-end you. The bull-bar at the back takes the impact and transmits the loads to the stiff structure of the back end of the car. This protects your (non-structural) panels and bodywork and transfers the loads to the passenger cell. The passenger cell may need to deform to reduce the accelerations imparted to the passengers - this is what safety cells are intended to do. So you now have a car which has an undamaged back end and is being scrapped because of the deformation of the passenger cell.
Or you could move the loads further forward and have your rear-end shunt deform the front suspension and engine mountings. Same result - rear end shunt = scrapped car.
They do actually design vehicles this way. Because it is profitable. For the car supply chain.
The ship was statically charged from flying too close to the thunderstorm.
Aircraft acquire a significant static charge regardless of the presence of thunderstorms. Just the friction of air over the body is sufficient to generate a substantial charge.
Remember your liferaft survival training? Why you're told to not try to grab the "high wire" that trails below the winch man from the recovery helicopter? 2000V discharge is nothing uncommon. And yes - it has sparked fires before. It has certainly been known about since the 1860s, and was the subject of regulation in Britain (in a mining context) by the 1910s.
That's exactly what I thought as well. I suspect that there's an arts graduate somewhere in the writing/ editing chain. But no, I didn't bother to RTFA - if it's got this sort of error, and the submitter didn't know enough to catch it for themselves, then it's probably not worth the effort.
Let's just hope if can't happen here. But as they say, those who don't learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat history class.
You should be able to pass history class by regurgitation of memorised facts, even if you don''t actually learn anything from it.
One of my graduating class of geologist - one who actually continues to work as a geologist - was a Young-Earth Creationist. Perfectly capable of understanding and recounting the various evidence, but he just didn't actually believe a word of it.
There is a cart and horse orientation type of error there. The construction and operation of nuclear reactors (starting at a sport ground in Chicago) allowed the collection of the detailed information (neutron capture cross-sections, neutron yield per fission) needed to design a nuclear weapon. Then other nuclear reactors had to be designed to produce the materials needed for the bomb.
Have you ever worked in industry. There is a huge amount of "you can't do this until you've done that, that, that, the other, some of this, and then moved those out of the way. You don't do that while learning a technology, you do it after learning the technology.
How long does it take from negotiating for land purchases to the first chips coming out of your fab? 5 years? 8 years?
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It is well known that 90% of people think (incorrectly) that they are a better than average driver. Automatically needing to re-sit AND re-pass your driving test on a regular basis may help to disabuse people of this erroneous notion. Also, since driving conditions and laws do change on a regular basis, people's tuition about driving and skill sets do need to be changed on a regular basis. And we know by experience that people will not undertake that tuition voluntarily.
Just because some people have misused statistics in the past doesn't mean that all statistics are bullshit. Try some re-education.
I know it is a heresy in this millennial world of spoon-feeding with pre-digested pap but your granny's advice about reading contracts before you sign them remain good advice.
A note for myself : if I find myself in the position of being a landlord again (perfectly plausible) I should include a clause about butt-fucking the tenant (let's not be sexist here - I don't need to re-write the contract for different genders) for free every second Friday, and doing them bareback during contract negotiations. Just to see if they actually do read the fucking thing.
No, it's what Trump's speech writers are doing, and the idiot himself probably doesn't even notice the position they''re manoeuvring him into.
Oh, the irony!
I think you're wrong on that by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude. but I'm just a geologist - what would I know about planets?
He thinks you should be rubbing up your own cows and plying them with booze, and let him molest his own animals?
There probably is lead plumbing still in individual old houses. But whenever anyone needs to do any plumbing repairs, they simply cannot obtain parts and fittings to connect to existing lead plumbing, so have no option but to rip out and replace. Or stop using that part of the system, which has the desired effect.
How do you know that?
I've heard (from friends "in the know") that lightening can't even stand up to a little waterboarding. Every bolt they've poured water onto has died.
The spark just went out of them.
Sorry.
Pretty good username too. Props!
20-odd comments in before someone names the elephant in the room.
I assume that once the parents started trying to track him down, they switched from using nightsticks on his feet to using electric cable - it leaves fewer marks.
FYI, I'm an ordained minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So anyone wanting to pay my air fare to NZ in return for a solemnisation is welcome to do so.
The rules that we have to adhere to in the oil industry in the same waters is to clear the seabed to 6ft below current mudline. And I've been on rigs when we've been doing this - which sometimes involves large amounts of explosives. If you happen to be driving between Aberdeen's East (Dyce) heliport and the city centre, you'll see a sculpture made from a piece of 20in casing that has been treated this way. (Or is it 18 in? I've never actually taken a tape measure to it to check.)
Even if it weren't the law, and the area wasn't one that was regularly trawled, then the fact that the area of the wind farm is routinely used for a holding pattern for ships waiting for a pilot boat into the harbour would discourage cavalier leaving of remains on the seabed.
Is connecting to the internet important for playing games? Oolite doesn't need that. CIV doesn't need that. Doom didn't (did it? - it's been a decade or so since I played it)
It speaks of a slightly worrying degree of optimism about human nature, but nothing worse than that.
While it's not untrue that the passwords in question are 4 or fewer characters long, it is far more significant (about 500 times more significant per digit, not that I've completely memorised my log(10) tables) that they are digits, not general purpose characters.
I don't think that the astronomy community cares enough to have come to a settled decision on the question.
Unfortunately, this also results in anomalies such as a political party that was almost completely obliterated at the election, being the party in power. But I honestly don't think that is going to last much longer - along with the UK.
Wow, that would make you about 160, maybe even 180 (I forget when the Saurischian/ Ornithischian split within the dinosaurs was recognised, even though it's confusing to this question).
Archaeopteryx lithographica, the first specimen, was found in 1860 and described in 1861. The first skeletal specimen was found a few weeks or months later (the exact date of discovery of the feather isn't quite clear) and reported much more quickly. Ever since then, it has been game over for non-dinosaur origins for birds. (Pterosaurs, Mosasaurs and Ichthyosaurs are all, of course, not dinosaurs even though they were contemporaneous with the dinosaurs.)
If you think for one second about it, the probability that the first fossil of an X which you find is actually a very early specimen of the type of animals classed as X, is quite low. It is only in quite rare circumstances (Solenhofen, of Archaeopteryx fame being a rare example) that you get essentially 100% removal of rock from an area, and close examination of that rock for fossils. (At Solenhofen, this was because of the need for flawless slabs of very fine limestone for printing.) Otherwise, the fossils which are found are a sample (with statistical biases) of the fossils which are in the rock, and the fossils which are in the rock are themselves a sample of the organisms which were present in the environment. So, the likelihood is that the first time you find (and identify) an X, it is from some significant time after the first appearance of X.
(I forgot to mention the biases in identification of fossils. People do make mistakes ; the 8th Archaeopteryx specimen spent some decades under a label of "a Pterosaur arm" until properly identified in the 1970s.)
Do you have a technique for doing that? Without scrapping Slashdot totally?
So, you have a nice crumple zone at the front, and a rigid back end to the car. Safety cell in the middle to protect the passengers.
You now have someone rear-end you. The bull-bar at the back takes the impact and transmits the loads to the stiff structure of the back end of the car. This protects your (non-structural) panels and bodywork and transfers the loads to the passenger cell. The passenger cell may need to deform to reduce the accelerations imparted to the passengers - this is what safety cells are intended to do. So you now have a car which has an undamaged back end and is being scrapped because of the deformation of the passenger cell.
Or you could move the loads further forward and have your rear-end shunt deform the front suspension and engine mountings. Same result - rear end shunt = scrapped car.
They do actually design vehicles this way. Because it is profitable. For the car supply chain.
Aircraft acquire a significant static charge regardless of the presence of thunderstorms. Just the friction of air over the body is sufficient to generate a substantial charge.
Remember your liferaft survival training? Why you're told to not try to grab the "high wire" that trails below the winch man from the recovery helicopter? 2000V discharge is nothing uncommon. And yes - it has sparked fires before. It has certainly been known about since the 1860s, and was the subject of regulation in Britain (in a mining context) by the 1910s.
That's exactly what I thought as well. I suspect that there's an arts graduate somewhere in the writing/ editing chain. But no, I didn't bother to RTFA - if it's got this sort of error, and the submitter didn't know enough to catch it for themselves, then it's probably not worth the effort.
You should be able to pass history class by regurgitation of memorised facts, even if you don''t actually learn anything from it.
One of my graduating class of geologist - one who actually continues to work as a geologist - was a Young-Earth Creationist. Perfectly capable of understanding and recounting the various evidence, but he just didn't actually believe a word of it.
Have you ever worked in industry. There is a huge amount of "you can't do this until you've done that, that, that, the other, some of this, and then moved those out of the way. You don't do that while learning a technology, you do it after learning the technology.
How long does it take from negotiating for land purchases to the first chips coming out of your fab? 5 years? 8 years?