So, that's three sensors, each of which has to be accurate to around 1 part per thousand, over a range of loads from around a ton to around a thousand tonnes. And all 3 have to remain within calibration error of each other. Without taking into consideration the loads imposed on the plane by weather.
Have you ever actually built and operated instrumentation?
You seem to be conflating "irrational" with "insane". But it's entirely possible for something to be completely irrational (for example, composing poetry, or believing that terraforming Mars is a way of dealing with Earth's population and ecological problems ; the latter is more common on Slashdot than the former) without actually being insane. On the other hand, I have a friend who, if his biochemistry goes wonky or he stops taking his medication, becomes a hallucinating religion-spouting gibbering wreck and gets locked into a ward at the local psychiatric asylum for a couple of months until they've got his drug regime back into line with his biochemistry. Although he is, in the opinion of several doctors of psychiatry, at that time entirely insane, he remains somewhat rational. If only I could get him to record some of his plans for a world-dominating religion, we could be onto a real Hubbard-scale winner.
None of which, of course, has any bearing on - for example - the morality of parting fools from their money by offering them fake religious comfort.
A few years ago - 5 or 10 by memory - there was a story on Slashdot about someone who built a logical equivalent of an 8086 or 80386 or some such 1980s era processor.
I wouldn't believe it anyway. GPS readings indoors are not very accurate. And wifi signals mostly come from mobile equipment (as in, the access point can be moved more easily than the house), which limits the accuracy that you can achieve with that too.
A billionaire businessman who is an absolute arsehole (we've got Trump developments in our area ; we know what he's really like, not what his PR people paint him as) and a brain surgeon who is a fucking idiot in addition to being a religious dimwit?
Yeah, I'm better than the both of them put together.
It wasn't until Sunday that I realised that the Paris attacks had come on Friday the 13th. Clearly they wanted to add another "day that will live forever in the annals of infamy" to 9/11 (the 2001 one, and the 1973 CIA one in Chile), 7/7, 7/12, 22/11...
So, on that basis, I would not be in the least bit surprised to see "Black Friday" become the date of another terrorist massacre.
There's a good chance of general purpose gun nuts going on a shooting spree too. If you're in a country that arms it's gun nuts.
Feb 11th (11/2) would be another good day to avoid.
OK, I get your point. Terrorists are - from your point of view - insane.
So, let's substitute "professional mercenary who is hired by a terrorist organisation" and now you can deal with the problem of sane people performing terrorist attacks without getting distracted by questions of their sanity.
In fact, your assertion of insanity in terrorists is flat out wrong. They are people who disagree with you over the meaning of the word "immoral". Things which you consider to be immoral, they may consider to be moral. So, for example, I grew up being searched every time I entered a public building because some people thought that killing catholics is a moral action, while others thought that killing protestants is a moral action. And the streets got bombed in consequence.
But the people on both sides were perfectly sane. They just had different morals to each other (and to me).
You might (or might not, I don't have any way of knowing) differ from my morals on this point too. I don't believe that it is ever moral to kill someone. But many Americans (and a smaller number of other nationalities) believe that it is moral to kill people who have killed other people. Does that difference of moral opinion mean that one of us is insane? If so, which one?
Game chat is monitored (I wrote some code for the monitors to kick/ban players) and of course anybody playing the game can see it.
Since I've never played an online game - and only about 15 minutes in my life with an offline console before I decided to put it back into the raffle - this might be wrong. But can anyone join an online game, or can the person who sets up the game choose who to allow to play? If the latter, then the terrorists only need to carry the address of the game server, their user name and password into the country, plus the contact information for the sleeper cell who will provide the weapons.
Or one might conclude that his specificity of the Playstation 4 means that he's been paid off by whomever would benefit from a massive rise in sales/use of said PS4, or any negative publicity.
FTFY. Surely the endorsement of the PS4 as hosting terrorist-grade communications facilities would be a major selling point?
Also:
Or one might conclude that his specificity of the Playstation 4 means that he's been paid off by whomever would benefit from a no change in sales/use of said PS4, or any negative publicity.
FTFY. Surely the endorsement of the PS4 as hosting terrorist-grade communications facilities would be completely over the heads of most people who might be in the market for a games console this festive season.
Since the low ground of utterly incredible claims of fact has already been taken by established religions, then there can be no standard of seriousness.
Dressing like a pirate is special occasion clothing. Any time you want to decrease global warming, then you need to wear the pirate regalia ; any time you want to increase global warming, then you don't wear the regalia. For an intermediate effect, partial regalia may be worn - for example, in some locations the cutlass and hand-hook may be impractical or even dangerous (or even fall foul of the TSA), so you can restrict yourself to a frilly (unwashed) shirt and tricorn hat. The intention of piratical regalia is more important than the details of the clothing.
While I am an ordained minister of the CoFSM, this is not a fatwa(*). Other opinions may be held and can be freely discussed around the beer volcano.
(*) I'm not sure that fatwas are an FSM concept, but I don't recall any fatwa banning fatwas, so this question is up for debate too.
Iran has been trying to change this for years, by running an oil trading centre in âuros. As the largest producer in the world (though not the largest exporter), Russia has been pretty unconcerned over this. It's the Americans and Saudis who have a problem with it.
In a world where any computer can talk to any other computer,
Which world is that? In the world I live in, you still need to plug bits of copper into contact with each other, or accelerate electrons in an antenna in a specific pattern, in order to get computer to talk unto computer. If you choose to NOT connect that cable, or to switch on the software that controls that antenna (if the electronics are actually installed in your computer, and if there is a corresponding antenna elsewhere in your building) then there is at least one computer in the world which cannot talk to any other computer in the world. In fact, there are millions, perhaps billions, of stand-alone computers.
Since the asteroid belt contains more than 100 million cubic miles of ore, weighing several quadrillion tonnes,
In geological terms, it's whatever number in whatever measure you want of ORE plus GANGUE. The ore is the stuff you want, which you can separate from gangue by crude physical processes (digging here, but not there ; blasting out and taking for processing the ore from that vein before cutting an access tunnel through the gangue). The terms become a bit vaguer when the ore is highly dispersed as it is in most ideas about asteroids (modern copper mines, for example, run to 1 to 2 % ore in literally mountains of gangue, but since the ore veins are typically under a millimetre across, separating the ore from the gangue is unfeasible ; naturally, this generates mountains of waste). Of course, these are just ideas - we've very few ground-truthed measurements of asteroid composition, and our remote sensing technologies are not up to the task of detecting the ppt or ppm levels of minerals anticipated in these ores. At the very least, we need to get an XRF (or similar) machine to within metres of the rock in question, and measure a few thousands of data points (to understand the distribution of high- and low- grade ores in the gangue.
There is a lot of wild, wild optimism expressed on the topic of asteroid mining. But chondritic elemental abundances are pretty well known, and we know that there will be a lot of gangue to get through. some of that you can possibly re-form (stick it into bags ; part-melt it into slabs) to use as radiation shielding ; some of it you might use for soil in your agricultural modules. but most of it is going to be waste. And sending waste to somewhere else (particularly given the unfortunate habit of things in orbit to come back) costs energy.
But the correct response to people violating a service's terms and conditions is also termination of the service.
If the service were running an email service for YourCorp.com, and you violated the Ts & Cs by hosting a torrent server there, would you object to the service being withdrawn?
The service here is publication and promotion of a piece of writing. The terms of service agreed to included that the software described remained available. The Ts and Cs have been violated. So the service (of publishing and promoting the writing) has been withdrawn.
It's far from an ideal circumstance - perhaps a better response would be to have put the paper into the public domain with a big warning about "this software is dangerous" on the revised publication - but it doesn't seem disproportionate.
Having a paper retracted after publication is seriously damaging to a scientist's reputation. It's probably the most serious action that the journal could take, and the reputational damage will last for the rest of the original writer's life.
If you think Americans buy what we need, you've not been paying attention to our [$INSERTProblemHere] problem.
While Americans and their girths may be one part of the problem, the entire industry of fooling, tricking, or persuading people into buying things that they don't need doe need some blame too.
Not being online will not be an option. Don't have a (landline) phone or a computer... please opt out using the web page at notme.gov.uk....
It's like this thing that you have an address. Not having an address, or having a location which changes from night to night is not a permissible option. (I have a friend who is just about finished building his retirement home - a mobile home. He's an Bolshy anti-government person, who happily pays his taxes. But he doesn't fit into approved boxes, so he's an un-person.
... after a week satisfying Bill's demands in the cell, I am sure that the jailed GoogBookZon executives will be sure that their programmers will be able to fix this problem before the executives go back into Big Butch Bill's cell.
There is nothing like a week of anal rape to change your perspective on corporate versus individual rights.
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So, that's three sensors, each of which has to be accurate to around 1 part per thousand, over a range of loads from around a ton to around a thousand tonnes. And all 3 have to remain within calibration error of each other. Without taking into consideration the loads imposed on the plane by weather.
Have you ever actually built and operated instrumentation?
None of which, of course, has any bearing on - for example - the morality of parting fools from their money by offering them fake religious comfort.
This story perhaps? No.
I wouldn't believe it anyway. GPS readings indoors are not very accurate. And wifi signals mostly come from mobile equipment (as in, the access point can be moved more easily than the house), which limits the accuracy that you can achieve with that too.
Yeah, I'm better than the both of them put together.
So, on that basis, I would not be in the least bit surprised to see "Black Friday" become the date of another terrorist massacre.
There's a good chance of general purpose gun nuts going on a shooting spree too. If you're in a country that arms it's gun nuts.
Feb 11th (11/2) would be another good day to avoid.
OK, I get your point. Terrorists are - from your point of view - insane.
So, let's substitute "professional mercenary who is hired by a terrorist organisation" and now you can deal with the problem of sane people performing terrorist attacks without getting distracted by questions of their sanity.
In fact, your assertion of insanity in terrorists is flat out wrong. They are people who disagree with you over the meaning of the word "immoral". Things which you consider to be immoral, they may consider to be moral. So, for example, I grew up being searched every time I entered a public building because some people thought that killing catholics is a moral action, while others thought that killing protestants is a moral action. And the streets got bombed in consequence.
But the people on both sides were perfectly sane. They just had different morals to each other (and to me).
You might (or might not, I don't have any way of knowing) differ from my morals on this point too. I don't believe that it is ever moral to kill someone. But many Americans (and a smaller number of other nationalities) believe that it is moral to kill people who have killed other people. Does that difference of moral opinion mean that one of us is insane? If so, which one?
Since I've never played an online game - and only about 15 minutes in my life with an offline console before I decided to put it back into the raffle - this might be wrong. But can anyone join an online game, or can the person who sets up the game choose who to allow to play? If the latter, then the terrorists only need to carry the address of the game server, their user name and password into the country, plus the contact information for the sleeper cell who will provide the weapons.
FTFY. Surely the endorsement of the PS4 as hosting terrorist-grade communications facilities would be a major selling point?
Also :
FTFY. Surely the endorsement of the PS4 as hosting terrorist-grade communications facilities would be completely over the heads of most people who might be in the market for a games console this festive season.
I think that's covered all bases.
Since the low ground of utterly incredible claims of fact has already been taken by established religions, then there can be no standard of seriousness.
At a guess, a NORth AFRican.
While I am an ordained minister of the CoFSM, this is not a fatwa(*). Other opinions may be held and can be freely discussed around the beer volcano.
(*) I'm not sure that fatwas are an FSM concept, but I don't recall any fatwa banning fatwas, so this question is up for debate too.
Sites that "expect" a particular screen size and can't adapt to other sizes are inherently broken and shouldn't be used.
The implication of still running on win 3.1 and not being updated is that there isn't the will.
Iran has been trying to change this for years, by running an oil trading centre in âuros. As the largest producer in the world (though not the largest exporter), Russia has been pretty unconcerned over this. It's the Americans and Saudis who have a problem with it.
Which world is that? In the world I live in, you still need to plug bits of copper into contact with each other, or accelerate electrons in an antenna in a specific pattern, in order to get computer to talk unto computer. If you choose to NOT connect that cable, or to switch on the software that controls that antenna (if the electronics are actually installed in your computer, and if there is a corresponding antenna elsewhere in your building) then there is at least one computer in the world which cannot talk to any other computer in the world. In fact, there are millions, perhaps billions, of stand-alone computers.
In geological terms, it's whatever number in whatever measure you want of ORE plus GANGUE. The ore is the stuff you want, which you can separate from gangue by crude physical processes (digging here, but not there ; blasting out and taking for processing the ore from that vein before cutting an access tunnel through the gangue). The terms become a bit vaguer when the ore is highly dispersed as it is in most ideas about asteroids (modern copper mines, for example, run to 1 to 2 % ore in literally mountains of gangue, but since the ore veins are typically under a millimetre across, separating the ore from the gangue is unfeasible ; naturally, this generates mountains of waste). Of course, these are just ideas - we've very few ground-truthed measurements of asteroid composition, and our remote sensing technologies are not up to the task of detecting the ppt or ppm levels of minerals anticipated in these ores. At the very least, we need to get an XRF (or similar) machine to within metres of the rock in question, and measure a few thousands of data points (to understand the distribution of high- and low- grade ores in the gangue.
There is a lot of wild, wild optimism expressed on the topic of asteroid mining. But chondritic elemental abundances are pretty well known, and we know that there will be a lot of gangue to get through. some of that you can possibly re-form (stick it into bags ; part-melt it into slabs) to use as radiation shielding ; some of it you might use for soil in your agricultural modules. but most of it is going to be waste. And sending waste to somewhere else (particularly given the unfortunate habit of things in orbit to come back) costs energy.
If the service were running an email service for YourCorp.com, and you violated the Ts & Cs by hosting a torrent server there, would you object to the service being withdrawn?
The service here is publication and promotion of a piece of writing. The terms of service agreed to included that the software described remained available. The Ts and Cs have been violated. So the service (of publishing and promoting the writing) has been withdrawn.
It's far from an ideal circumstance - perhaps a better response would be to have put the paper into the public domain with a big warning about "this software is dangerous" on the revised publication - but it doesn't seem disproportionate.
Having a paper retracted after publication is seriously damaging to a scientist's reputation. It's probably the most serious action that the journal could take, and the reputational damage will last for the rest of the original writer's life.
(Monty Python reference, for the young.)
Or were you trying to make a joke?
The centre of the dryest desert in the world hasn't had a water supply problem for something like 20 million years.
For your reference, that's central Antarctica.
While Americans and their girths may be one part of the problem, the entire industry of fooling, tricking, or persuading people into buying things that they don't need doe need some blame too.
Not being online will not be an option. Don't have a (landline) phone or a computer ... please opt out using the web page at notme.gov.uk ....
It's like this thing that you have an address. Not having an address, or having a location which changes from night to night is not a permissible option. (I have a friend who is just about finished building his retirement home - a mobile home. He's an Bolshy anti-government person, who happily pays his taxes. But he doesn't fit into approved boxes, so he's an un-person.
There is nothing like a week of anal rape to change your perspective on corporate versus individual rights.
No, you don't get lubricant.
You forgot the bit about doing this before you choose to be sterilised.