Science is not Faith's eternal enemy. Faith is Science's eternal enemy.
"Science", unlike "Faith", involves understanding what "eternal" means, and therefore the impossibility of making any claims about a state of thought existing for eternity (it'd either run into a "big crunch", heat death of the universe, or a "big rip", whichever current front runner for cosmology-of-reality turns out to be the closest approximation to reality). Science can handle a really, really long time - as a geologist, I have a good understanding of that, but will occasionally doff my hard hat at the astronomers as having a slightly longer time scale than I do. The likely duration of the human species doesn't count as being more than one of the faster beating ticks on my clock (it'd match, to a fair approximation, one or two pulses on the slowest of the major Milankovich cycles, or three on the next shorter cycle ; whether it has any more pulses left in it is a question that generations alive today have entirely in their hands).
"likely" doesn't cut much mustard with orbital mechanics. The reason for having the excesses of fuel in the second significant digit of your fuel load is because you're expecting to have to be precise in the third digit, and to need to make several attempts at it.
"likely" doesn't even deal with the first significant digit.
Sorry, I've been having to resist the temptation to ram some "order of magnitude" arguments back down a certain someone's throat for the last few days. It shows.
Or use proteins derived from human blood and/ or immune system components. (Which may be just what the other companies looking at this procedure are doing.)
(yeah, me bad)
Why? Common sense proposition on slashdot? Yeah - hand in your membership card then go out and gut yourself. Common sense isn't popular here.
The first part of TFS starts talking about "outsourcing", which is the use (by a company) of a second company to provide part of it's product. For example, a design studio may outsource the scrubbing of shit cans and the serving of food in the canteen to a third party. After all, does a design studio really need to know how to burn food, or what sort of arse wipe is cheapest? You might not like outsourcing, but there's nothing new or strange about it.
Then at the end of TFS, they've slipped to discussing a completely different thing : offshoring.
Why are they conflating two different things? Sloppy thinking? Or is it just common racism, not wanting to have those smelly foreigners here with their strange foods, different ideas and wrongly coloured skins.
Are the authors "Native American" "First Nation" people? Or some sort of second-rate immigrant?
I can't say that I'm terribly happy to be doing my job on one continent, with people looking over my shoulders from three different continents. If you ask me, they should be sitting out here and putting their own lives at risk. But I don't particularly care which other continents they're on. Just that they're on a different continent from the one that I'm working on this week, while criticising my action choices.
The wife refuses me permission to label plants in the garden, so I've no way of knowing what is what, or when it was planted (if I'd wanted to be able to identify plants, I'd be a botanist, not a geologist. Or I'd fossilize them, which tends to stop them growing).
At a guess, you're sticking the tape back onto itself, not sticking it to the waxy cuticle of the plants (which would scar the plant, if it didn't just get sloughed with the outermost layer of cuticle. That would probably work in a greenhouse, but if you're threading your plants through cable transits, snaking them along trays and up walls... you need your marking system to lay flat to the cable. A couple of mm stick up is OK - you need some clearance to get the cable through the obstruction - but 50mm of tag sticking out of the side of a cable will just snag, then get ripped off. Probably sufficient for tagging the cable as you're pushing them through, but if you had to go back later to re-build the scaffold to access the transit to re-label the cable up to specification... you wouldn't be popular.
Yeah, it took a long time for me to get round to watching any of it - I only got a TV a few years ago in any case - and it looks like shit. But there are diamonds in that shit.
[Shrug] The Daily Flail and the Royal College of Arts aren't very high on my list of reliable sources ; though I'd expect one of the Royal Colleges to hold to reasonable standards of scholarship, but I wouldn't expect the Flail to honour that. . But more importantly, you've carefully (or accidentally ; I don't know how much you actually know about Stonehenge) shifted from referring to "the stones" being "bell stones", to citing information about the bluestones.
While the bluestones are a part of Stonehenge, they're far from the dominant structures. They may be the second or third oldest structures on the site though. Most of the bluestones (which originally (probably) formed an outer ring around the site, before the Sarsen trilithons were excavated, hauled to the site, hammered to shape, and erected) are under a metre high, and some of them are completely buried and were only discovered by excavation in the 1920s. Also, the bluestones have been moved at least twice - each time having their keels re-shaped (hammered and chipped) to fit into the sockets cut into the Chalk for them (the chips are still found in the sockets when excavated, often along with hammer stones). They also had some centuries residing in a stone store away from the main site, before being substantially re-shaped at this "dump" (or store-room ; look at a church which was being re-built after the War and see if you can tell the difference from a dump) and moved back to the Stonehenge site.
Whatever the original purpose of the bluestones was, they've had multiple uses, and multiple re-shapings over the millennium-plus of their major use. Regardless of the opinions of the RCA guy, re-shaping a brittle object is going to change it's acoustic properties nearly as much as burying it (partly) in a compliant medium is going to change it's properties. But I'm sure the music producer could put him straight on that.
But I'm curious what the legal justification would be.
The justification is "You don't have a right to be here. You don't have permission to be here. Go away. Now."
Remember the situation : you have gone to someone else's country (therefore their rules apply ; there is no such thing as international law, and many countries don't subscribe to a particular set of "human rights"), and been refused entry. You never did have a "right" to be there, and now your permission to be there has been rescinded (check you visa terms and conditions : the country you're visiting can do this at any time without giving reason - generally ; some European countries have agreed to give up this right for citizens of other countries, but even within Europe it doesn't generally apply). That's it. End of necessary justification. Your permission has been rescinded.
For the rest - I would advise you to read the terms and conditions for the next visa you apply for. I have to have two passports, because I apply for so many visas at short notice. I RTFT&C, tedious though it is. You may be surprised about how few rights you have in most countries.
If you RTFP (it is Open Access ; use it, or lose it!) you'll find that the original researchers don't take that paradigm. They're not at all clear about why the whales died, and think that many of the died and hit the seabed in depths of tens to a hundred or so metres (various lines of evidence : sediment patterns, levels of seabed life ; nearby unambiguous shoreline deposits ; constraints on the angle of slope of the seabed for sediment stability). Though parts of the sequence of beds in which the whales were found were definitely emergent (above sea level) at times, that's not considered the case for the particular beds (plural ! They represent thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years of repeated events.) in which the whale fossils have been found.
TFP isn't confused. The coverage by a journalist working for Science Magazine may be. (I RTFP a few days ago, and promoted it to several geological discussion lists.)
'Oceanic algal bloom' is a credible proposition (though there wasn't any of the palynological or micropalaeontological evidence that one could reasonably have hoped for, and there is evidence of fairly active current movement, which doesn't really help an algal bloom hypothesis). But volcanic gas clouds (e.g. a sulphide-rich ignimbrite projecting out into the bay) is also credible.
At this time, the cause of death isn't clear, and there are multiple credible possibilities.
Not to mention the invention of the United States.
Not ot mention the human species.
Actually, that far back, you're pre-dating all of the likely common ancestors of the anthropoid apes, with the possible exception of the common ancestor of the Pongoidae and the rest of the anthropoid apes.
On the assumption. of course that it'll be available on Linux.
I'll have to watch an episode of South Park all the way through though. The couple I've seen bits of are funny enough for that to possibly be worth the effort.
will it be available on Wii? That might encourage me to actually use the thing.
The gearbox in a recent Focus can only be described as bone jarringly violent. Every time that thing changed gear the selector fork forcibly readjusted my spine whilst moving the cog.
Sorry, but I thought that synchromesh took care of that in the mid-1905s or so. Some time before I was born anyway. You never move the cogs, just disengage a clutch from one cog-pair before engaging a clutch on another cog pair. So as long as the friction pads and springs on the clutches aren't too violent, they only need to rotationally accelerate or decelerate the couple of kilos of the lay shaft, and then typically by only around 25-30% of their rotation speed.
is this responsible corporate behavior to protect their product, or an unethical endangering of lives
The corporation is responsible to it's shareholders to maximise their profits. The corporation also has a responsibility to the people who could be affected by it's products use. So, you only have to worry about conflict if the two groups overlap. If, for example, you sell machine guns to children, you need to make sure that your shareholders are not people with children, and whose lives are lived in gated communities (with security guards who die at the boundaries without troubling you) and escorted limousines that aren't troubled by street people.
The same logic can perfectly well square this for Google. I predict that GoogleBuses have bullet-proof glass, and their drivers are banned from using Glass, while the Googlenauts on board are driving to work using their Glasses.
Get thee to a decomissioned Navy facility this very night, carrying a radiation detector in one hand, and a shovel in the other. Get out there and get those radiation sources dug up and into your safe hands before some irresponsible person comes along and "cleans them up"!
You could probably even defend it as performing a public service. As long as you keep it separate from your dispersal device until just before you want to trigger your "dirty bomb".
Sharpies are the worst. They fade to illegible after only a few months.
FTFY
Well, if you keep things in a drawer, they might last for years. But if it's out on the counter / living room desk / work top in the laboratory, it'll be gone in months.
As the parent says, for hand-written marks, "paint sticks" are better. Brands vary ; "Artline" are reasonably good, but will still fade after a couple of years, and if your goods are exposed to organic solvents (mine are ; yours may not) struggle to make it to 6 months. But then again, the equipment is often rotting by then anyway. Solder tends to corrode in the salty breeze on the ship, particularly with fumes of smoke from the drying ovens.
P-touch labels seem stable enough, but getting them to lay flat can be a PITA. If there's a P-touch machine on board (and hopefully in regular use) then it seems good enough. Unfortunately we've all been burned by printers that take unusual sizes of consumables (e.g. most inkjets on the market) and which then go out of supply after a couple of years leaving you with an expensive paperweight. (Or, you can't get spares on this week's continent ; same effect.) So, do your sums on how much use you'll get out of it before investing. And don't expect the glue behind the tape to last if your cables are flexing in a damp environment.
If you're needing to mark cables which are going to be in place until YOU have to come and re-build / repair / replace the system (say, a 5-year lifetime), from my time pulling cables in Ex-d and IS environments, the dog's dangly bits are Critchley markers. But don't expect them to be cheap - look at spending around a pint of decent beer per cable leg. (Obviously, you have to label each side of a cable going through a [gas-tight] transit block.)
(I use the pint of beer as a time-invariant unit of value. They cost a quid-50 a pair when I started in 1989 ; they were about two quid-50 when I stopped doing this in the field, and I don't do the paperwork for restocking what I use in the maintenance workshop, but I guess it's still about a pint a pop.)
so, basically, we're going to litter mars with piles of dead bodies of suicidal people.
Where you see dead bodies, I see fertilizer and soil in the making. But it would be hugely easier to start on building a closed ecology in space, without that pesky gravity well to fall into and then have to decelerate after falling in.
Typical humanity.
That'd be spending a billennium or several tailoring the environment to suit organisms like ourselves, and THEN shitting it up.
He had to post AC because his account hasn't been activated yet - he's from the future, remember?
What ? In the future they don't know how to read (because of text-to-speech and text-to thought technologies), so he couldn't work out what to do with the Captcha?
(Actually, I don't think I know if there's a captcha on the sign up page; it was probably before captcha came along,
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FTFY
Tell me, as a non-American living outside the USA, why I should object to you shitting into your own back yard for a change?
"Science", unlike "Faith", involves understanding what "eternal" means, and therefore the impossibility of making any claims about a state of thought existing for eternity (it'd either run into a "big crunch", heat death of the universe, or a "big rip", whichever current front runner for cosmology-of-reality turns out to be the closest approximation to reality). Science can handle a really, really long time - as a geologist, I have a good understanding of that, but will occasionally doff my hard hat at the astronomers as having a slightly longer time scale than I do. The likely duration of the human species doesn't count as being more than one of the faster beating ticks on my clock (it'd match, to a fair approximation, one or two pulses on the slowest of the major Milankovich cycles, or three on the next shorter cycle ; whether it has any more pulses left in it is a question that generations alive today have entirely in their hands).
"Faith" just handwaves. Useless for planning.
People who want to confuse it with metre-seconds and plant some hardware into the planet your intended orbiting.
"likely" doesn't cut much mustard with orbital mechanics. The reason for having the excesses of fuel in the second significant digit of your fuel load is because you're expecting to have to be precise in the third digit, and to need to make several attempts at it.
"likely" doesn't even deal with the first significant digit.
Sorry, I've been having to resist the temptation to ram some "order of magnitude" arguments back down a certain someone's throat for the last few days. It shows.
Or use proteins derived from human blood and/ or immune system components. (Which may be just what the other companies looking at this procedure are doing.)
Why? Common sense proposition on slashdot? Yeah - hand in your membership card then go out and gut yourself. Common sense isn't popular here.
Then at the end of TFS, they've slipped to discussing a completely different thing : offshoring.
Why are they conflating two different things? Sloppy thinking? Or is it just common racism, not wanting to have those smelly foreigners here with their strange foods, different ideas and wrongly coloured skins.
Are the authors "Native American" "First Nation" people? Or some sort of second-rate immigrant?
I can't say that I'm terribly happy to be doing my job on one continent, with people looking over my shoulders from three different continents. If you ask me, they should be sitting out here and putting their own lives at risk. But I don't particularly care which other continents they're on. Just that they're on a different continent from the one that I'm working on this week, while criticising my action choices.
People have been failing to ignite me for years. Flame away.
At a guess, you're sticking the tape back onto itself, not sticking it to the waxy cuticle of the plants (which would scar the plant, if it didn't just get sloughed with the outermost layer of cuticle. That would probably work in a greenhouse, but if you're threading your plants through cable transits, snaking them along trays and up walls ... you need your marking system to lay flat to the cable. A couple of mm stick up is OK - you need some clearance to get the cable through the obstruction - but 50mm of tag sticking out of the side of a cable will just snag, then get ripped off. Probably sufficient for tagging the cable as you're pushing them through, but if you had to go back later to re-build the scaffold to access the transit to re-label the cable up to specification... you wouldn't be popular.
Yeah, it took a long time for me to get round to watching any of it - I only got a TV a few years ago in any case - and it looks like shit. But there are diamonds in that shit.
While the bluestones are a part of Stonehenge, they're far from the dominant structures. They may be the second or third oldest structures on the site though. Most of the bluestones (which originally (probably) formed an outer ring around the site, before the Sarsen trilithons were excavated, hauled to the site, hammered to shape, and erected) are under a metre high, and some of them are completely buried and were only discovered by excavation in the 1920s. Also, the bluestones have been moved at least twice - each time having their keels re-shaped (hammered and chipped) to fit into the sockets cut into the Chalk for them (the chips are still found in the sockets when excavated, often along with hammer stones). They also had some centuries residing in a stone store away from the main site, before being substantially re-shaped at this "dump" (or store-room ; look at a church which was being re-built after the War and see if you can tell the difference from a dump) and moved back to the Stonehenge site.
Whatever the original purpose of the bluestones was, they've had multiple uses, and multiple re-shapings over the millennium-plus of their major use. Regardless of the opinions of the RCA guy, re-shaping a brittle object is going to change it's acoustic properties nearly as much as burying it (partly) in a compliant medium is going to change it's properties. But I'm sure the music producer could put him straight on that.
The justification is "You don't have a right to be here. You don't have permission to be here. Go away. Now."
Remember the situation : you have gone to someone else's country (therefore their rules apply ; there is no such thing as international law, and many countries don't subscribe to a particular set of "human rights"), and been refused entry. You never did have a "right" to be there, and now your permission to be there has been rescinded (check you visa terms and conditions : the country you're visiting can do this at any time without giving reason - generally ; some European countries have agreed to give up this right for citizens of other countries, but even within Europe it doesn't generally apply). That's it. End of necessary justification. Your permission has been rescinded.
For the rest - I would advise you to read the terms and conditions for the next visa you apply for. I have to have two passports, because I apply for so many visas at short notice. I RTFT&C, tedious though it is. You may be surprised about how few rights you have in most countries.
TFP isn't confused. The coverage by a journalist working for Science Magazine may be. (I RTFP a few days ago, and promoted it to several geological discussion lists.)
Why? Captain Kirk never did, even when he was doing the green chicks in the Shatner.
At this time, the cause of death isn't clear, and there are multiple credible possibilities.
You insensitive sight-ist clod! He could be blind, and groping for a Freudian Slit ... I mean worm. Word! Dammit!
Not ot mention the human species.
Actually, that far back, you're pre-dating all of the likely common ancestors of the anthropoid apes, with the possible exception of the common ancestor of the Pongoidae and the rest of the anthropoid apes.
The deaths occurred over a period of thousands, probably 10 thousand plus, of years. HArdly a whale jam.
And the sizes were more like 10m, not 30m.
But for someone who's not RTFA, you're doing well. Just imagine how much you'd know if you'd actually RTFP. It is Open Access, after all.
I'll have to watch an episode of South Park all the way through though. The couple I've seen bits of are funny enough for that to possibly be worth the effort.
will it be available on Wii? That might encourage me to actually use the thing.
Sorry, but I thought that synchromesh took care of that in the mid-1905s or so. Some time before I was born anyway. You never move the cogs, just disengage a clutch from one cog-pair before engaging a clutch on another cog pair. So as long as the friction pads and springs on the clutches aren't too violent, they only need to rotationally accelerate or decelerate the couple of kilos of the lay shaft, and then typically by only around 25-30% of their rotation speed.
Oh, hang on - are you talking about automatics?
The corporation is responsible to it's shareholders to maximise their profits. The corporation also has a responsibility to the people who could be affected by it's products use. So, you only have to worry about conflict if the two groups overlap. If, for example, you sell machine guns to children, you need to make sure that your shareholders are not people with children, and whose lives are lived in gated communities (with security guards who die at the boundaries without troubling you) and escorted limousines that aren't troubled by street people.
The same logic can perfectly well square this for Google. I predict that GoogleBuses have bullet-proof glass, and their drivers are banned from using Glass, while the Googlenauts on board are driving to work using their Glasses.
You could probably even defend it as performing a public service. As long as you keep it separate from your dispersal device until just before you want to trigger your "dirty bomb".
FTFY
Well, if you keep things in a drawer, they might last for years. But if it's out on the counter / living room desk / work top in the laboratory, it'll be gone in months.
As the parent says, for hand-written marks, "paint sticks" are better. Brands vary ; "Artline" are reasonably good, but will still fade after a couple of years, and if your goods are exposed to organic solvents (mine are ; yours may not) struggle to make it to 6 months. But then again, the equipment is often rotting by then anyway. Solder tends to corrode in the salty breeze on the ship, particularly with fumes of smoke from the drying ovens.
P-touch labels seem stable enough, but getting them to lay flat can be a PITA. If there's a P-touch machine on board (and hopefully in regular use) then it seems good enough. Unfortunately we've all been burned by printers that take unusual sizes of consumables (e.g. most inkjets on the market) and which then go out of supply after a couple of years leaving you with an expensive paperweight. (Or, you can't get spares on this week's continent ; same effect.) So, do your sums on how much use you'll get out of it before investing. And don't expect the glue behind the tape to last if your cables are flexing in a damp environment.
If you're needing to mark cables which are going to be in place until YOU have to come and re-build / repair / replace the system (say, a 5-year lifetime), from my time pulling cables in Ex-d and IS environments, the dog's dangly bits are Critchley markers. But don't expect them to be cheap - look at spending around a pint of decent beer per cable leg. (Obviously, you have to label each side of a cable going through a [gas-tight] transit block.)
(I use the pint of beer as a time-invariant unit of value. They cost a quid-50 a pair when I started in 1989 ; they were about two quid-50 when I stopped doing this in the field, and I don't do the paperwork for restocking what I use in the maintenance workshop, but I guess it's still about a pint a pop.)
Where you see dead bodies, I see fertilizer and soil in the making. But it would be hugely easier to start on building a closed ecology in space, without that pesky gravity well to fall into and then have to decelerate after falling in.
That'd be spending a billennium or several tailoring the environment to suit organisms like ourselves, and THEN shitting it up.
What ? In the future they don't know how to read (because of text-to-speech and text-to thought technologies), so he couldn't work out what to do with the Captcha?
(Actually, I don't think I know if there's a captcha on the sign up page; it was probably before captcha came along,