If you could see the people, then it's Northern summer (axial tilt, all that jazz)...
So you'd be seeing drowning polar bears, ice sheets on land reflecting the sunlight and wide stretches of dark seawater soaking up the sunlight and warming. Maybe someone replacing the drive belt on their snowmobile on a sunny afternoon.
Then you're getting fined for breach of the peace (Section 5 of the public order act of - sorry I forget the year). you're not being fined for calling an ambulance.
Incidentally, if you call an ambulance for someone injured in a fight, then the ambulance service are not going to inform the police. They're not going to investigate who did what and to whom. It's not their job, they're not equipped or trained for it, they don't have time to do it, and they do have patient confidentiality laws to obey too. Doctors (who only see the patient when they're delivered to hospital) have obligations to report certain diseases (TB, typhoid, plague, spring to mind ; there are probably others, but not many), and certain types of wound (gunshots, and I think that's about it, which will probably trigger a police investigation), but otherwise they are also bound by patient confidentiality. Oh, they've got to report "suspicious" child injuries too - without any definition of "suspicious".
If, however, when you're calling the 999 service, they will often ask questions and they're not under any confidentiality obligations so they can choose to send the police to an incident that has come in as a call for an ambulance. You've got to be very cautious talking to them.
Police, fire, ambulance, and coastguard are separate services. Most people contact them through the same phone number (which is sometimes run by the police themselves), but they're still separate services. For example, the police are the only non-military employed staff in the country who are denied the right to go on strike ; fire and ambulance workers can strike while coastguard workers are unpaid volunteers. Who actually pays them, if they get paid, and whether or not they have death-in-service insurance, all vary.
Goatse is a blockchain-based incentivized meme creation platform that supports the generation, discovery and propagation of dank memes. All enabled by the cryptocurrency Goatse Coin.
Agency officials say the lapse isn't intentional and that it's just the result of delayed paperwork.
Some of the board members are resisting signing their suicide notes. no matter how many times we waterboard them, they just refuse to sign. It's not like we're going to shoot them, twice, in the back of the head once they've signed the note about how sad they are.
Maybe we'll just slip them a Mickey Finn, put them in their Tesla in the garage with the engine running, and leave them to die. That'll teach those pesky scientists to mess with businessmen!
There is also big potential in the grid-connected battery segment, which is a natural segway.
I think you mean a segue ("a smooth transition from one topic or section to the next"), not a SegWay(tm) (a strange two wheeled Chinese-owned contraption in search of a purpose, which revolutionised nothing but it's own wheels).
New homophones, by intention! I must remember to kick Dean Karmen in the nuts if I ever meet him.
What they don't "follow" is the same schedule as the rest of China. They use the same time base, but use different numerical times for waking up, going to work, and so forth,
The Russian long-distance rail network does much the same. Regardless of where you are in the nine (I think) time zones that comprise the RF, if you go to the station to check the time of the next train to Novosibirsk, you'll find that the timetables are set to Moscow time. You do the calculations to local time yourself, because you know your local time offset.
Launching from the equator or as close as possible, like Florida, gives you a boost because of the speed of the Earth's rotation.
For orbits on or close to the equator. For higher inclination orbits (e.g. polar orbits and near polar orbits such as used by the Iridium and GPS constellations), an equatorial launch site can increase the energy cost of achieving the desired orbit.
One of the constraints on the orbit chosen for the ISS was, for example, being able to efficiently reach it from non-equatorial launch sites like Kennedy (2831' N) and Baikonur (4557' N).
Hmmm, could you more efficiently get to a polar orbit with an equatorial launch and using the Moon to rotate the plane of orbit to polewards. I can see how the orbit would work, but energetically, I can't see it being "efficient". Possibly with a high efficiency engine (VASIMIR or similar) and energy from solar panels instead of stored on board in chemicals. But even that I'm struggling to see as being "efficient".
If I were you, I'd take the idiot who brought marsh land down any convenient dark ally and beat him up. It's his fault.
It might be hard to kick yourself in the nuts, but you'll thank yourself for it.
(I've been being unsympathetic to idiots who buy property on low-lying land since my school teachers introduced me to the term "flood plain" in the mid-1970s. Some fucking idiot in the town council had change development rules to make the flood plain available for building on. No other change - just a name change. And people brought it. And complained when it got flooded. Tough shit.)
It's always difficult translating two closely related languages to each other because people expect most of the words to mean the same thing in both languages. But that isn't necessarily the case. For example, this piece of EN_US
But information security programs need to be thoughtfully designed so they don't undermine the lawful tools we need to keep the American people safe."
translates into all other dialects of the EN_xx group as
Don't buy hardware from any company whose management includes any significant number of American citizens or residents. It'll be back-doored at the factory by a hostile foreign power (the US Govt.)
I don't know about Canada at all, but I've never heard anyone refer to mains electricity as "hydro" in Britain. Not once. It's "mains", or "the mains".
It's just possible that you're getting confused by the fact that one of the Scottish electricity companies was called "Scottish Hydro", and that company did sometimes get referred to as "the Hydro." But that means practically nothing. My neighbour is actually supplied by them, in their current incarnation as "SSE". They've even moved their headquarters back into the country since I last lived somewhere served by them. Obviously, with my neighbour being served by "the Hydro," my electricity comes though the same cable but from the Spanish.
Yes, it's all languages living and dead and symbols
That's the aspiration. It gets a bit zen for languages that never had a native written form (probably most of them), but that's zen for you.
and emojis
And that's the down side.
I occasionally try posting in Russian, needing Cyrillic characters. More often, I try to include technical symbols (the micro- symbol ; deltas ; therefore and because). It's really frustrating to come across Slashdot's inadequacies.
- Completely re-invent something from the ground up for the specific need of the mission ?
(which actually is a valid strategy : that's the current situation on Mars with probe using sattelite relays)
Well, sort of. They've known they have data issues and have been working on solutions since around 2005 (to my memory ; quite likely earlier). For several years NASA (possibly via JPL, CalTech or somesuch intermediary) were funding Vint Cerf to work up proposals for modifying the packet switching techniques used in TCP & IP to handle the greater (and very variable time of flight latency issues between nodes, the re-transmission requests, what to do about reassembling packets at intermediate nodes... a number of issues. One version has been successfully working relaying data between surface devices (Spirit, Pathfinder, Opportunity...) and orbital devices (Mars Reconnaisence Orbiter, Mars Express) then from the orbiter to Earth. That still leaves certain periods (opposition, when the Sun is between Earth and Mars) when communications are unreliable, but there are far fewer times when you can't get a signal from Earth to the surface of Mars and back.
The next step would be to put additional relays in Earth-trojan (or maybe Venus-trojan, for the solar power) orbits so that opposition problems are reduced further. What the schedule on that is, I don't know. But after that, essentially any point in the solar system could be predictable linked to Earth through 3 hops ("regions" in IPN terminology). You'd still have time of flight issues, but they're the law, and they seem to be manageable.
I believe that you can now be charged if you need an ambulance as a result of starting a fight.
Citation very definitely required.
Just for a start, hospital groups would need to set up an accounts payable system for charging people. As well as feeding the landsharks enough to get them to breed (or however it is that you get more lawyers) for the inevitable appeals and disputes.
How does that muscle memory help when you switch to a different keyboard layout? I switch, several times a day, between EN_UK, RU_RU, PO_PO and DE_DE. Sometimes several times per document.
On the most basic level, a message might represent a statement like âoeWe will make your sun go supernova tomorrowâ. True or not, it could cause wide-spread panic.
In propaganda terms, this is spreading despair and dissension, and does not need to be true. For example, the ludicrously implausible statement that "Donald Trump is President of America" spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt throughout the world, regardless of it's truthfulness.
They do take a roundabout path to get to their point (I'm trying to remember the name of the technique ; it's not reductio ad absurdam, but it's down that rhetorical path), but by talking through why it's implausible that we'd be able to safely decode and decontaminate a complex ETI message, they show why any METI ("Messaging" counterpart to SETI) that we do should be of the simplest of data types.
Ever had that guy at work proposing "If we can add $FEATURE$ to #NEWPRODUCT#, woudn't that be great?" Well they're getting their defence against that in first.
I bet it started over beers at a conference though.
I recognise Hippke's name from something recently. [Searches] Results for "Interstellar Communication" : there has been a burst of such short papers from him over the last 6 months or so, including one on bit rates achievable from interstellar probes, which I remember reading. May have submitted it here too. Other work on Kepler data, exoplanets, exo-Trojans etc. Perfectly solid science.
If they shut down the servers of [GAME_2017], but I can still connect to pirate servers, there's no reason for me to purchase [GAME_2018].
Checks the copyrights on my installed games. 1991 (I brought it on floppy disc) ; 1994 (4 or 5 stiffy discs) and 2017 (Freeware, but essentially replicating something I pirated in 1989).
What is this thing about "game servers"? What the hell is the point of a game that requires you to connect to the internet?
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So you'd be seeing drowning polar bears, ice sheets on land reflecting the sunlight and wide stretches of dark seawater soaking up the sunlight and warming. Maybe someone replacing the drive belt on their snowmobile on a sunny afternoon.
Incidentally, if you call an ambulance for someone injured in a fight, then the ambulance service are not going to inform the police. They're not going to investigate who did what and to whom. It's not their job, they're not equipped or trained for it, they don't have time to do it, and they do have patient confidentiality laws to obey too. Doctors (who only see the patient when they're delivered to hospital) have obligations to report certain diseases (TB, typhoid, plague, spring to mind ; there are probably others, but not many), and certain types of wound (gunshots, and I think that's about it, which will probably trigger a police investigation), but otherwise they are also bound by patient confidentiality. Oh, they've got to report "suspicious" child injuries too - without any definition of "suspicious".
If, however, when you're calling the 999 service, they will often ask questions and they're not under any confidentiality obligations so they can choose to send the police to an incident that has come in as a call for an ambulance. You've got to be very cautious talking to them.
Police, fire, ambulance, and coastguard are separate services. Most people contact them through the same phone number (which is sometimes run by the police themselves), but they're still separate services. For example, the police are the only non-military employed staff in the country who are denied the right to go on strike ; fire and ambulance workers can strike while coastguard workers are unpaid volunteers. Who actually pays them, if they get paid, and whether or not they have death-in-service insurance, all vary.
Which country learned more between (say) 1940 and 1950?
But the email service is still working, so "meh".
Some of the board members are resisting signing their suicide notes. no matter how many times we waterboard them, they just refuse to sign. It's not like we're going to shoot them, twice, in the back of the head once they've signed the note about how sad they are.
Maybe we'll just slip them a Mickey Finn, put them in their Tesla in the garage with the engine running, and leave them to die. That'll teach those pesky scientists to mess with businessmen!
Not even work by an apprentice under supervision of a journeyman or master? How medieval!
I think you mean a segue ("a smooth transition from one topic or section to the next"), not a SegWay(tm) (a strange two wheeled Chinese-owned contraption in search of a purpose, which revolutionised nothing but it's own wheels).
New homophones, by intention! I must remember to kick Dean Karmen in the nuts if I ever meet him.
The Russian long-distance rail network does much the same. Regardless of where you are in the nine (I think) time zones that comprise the RF, if you go to the station to check the time of the next train to Novosibirsk, you'll find that the timetables are set to Moscow time. You do the calculations to local time yourself, because you know your local time offset.
For orbits on or close to the equator. For higher inclination orbits (e.g. polar orbits and near polar orbits such as used by the Iridium and GPS constellations), an equatorial launch site can increase the energy cost of achieving the desired orbit.
One of the constraints on the orbit chosen for the ISS was, for example, being able to efficiently reach it from non-equatorial launch sites like Kennedy (2831' N) and Baikonur (4557' N).
Hmmm, could you more efficiently get to a polar orbit with an equatorial launch and using the Moon to rotate the plane of orbit to polewards. I can see how the orbit would work, but energetically, I can't see it being "efficient". Possibly with a high efficiency engine (VASIMIR or similar) and energy from solar panels instead of stored on board in chemicals. But even that I'm struggling to see as being "efficient".
It might be hard to kick yourself in the nuts, but you'll thank yourself for it.
(I've been being unsympathetic to idiots who buy property on low-lying land since my school teachers introduced me to the term "flood plain" in the mid-1970s. Some fucking idiot in the town council had change development rules to make the flood plain available for building on. No other change - just a name change. And people brought it. And complained when it got flooded. Tough shit.)
translates into all other dialects of the EN_xx group as
It's just possible that you're getting confused by the fact that one of the Scottish electricity companies was called "Scottish Hydro", and that company did sometimes get referred to as "the Hydro." But that means practically nothing. My neighbour is actually supplied by them, in their current incarnation as "SSE". They've even moved their headquarters back into the country since I last lived somewhere served by them. Obviously, with my neighbour being served by "the Hydro," my electricity comes though the same cable but from the Spanish.
An all-too-rare case of someone who actually uses words whose meaning they understand.
Poor Millennials. Punch card made the best roach material. And those metal foil ATM cards were great for lining up your coke.
That's the aspiration. It gets a bit zen for languages that never had a native written form (probably most of them), but that's zen for you.
And that's the down side.
I occasionally try posting in Russian, needing Cyrillic characters. More often, I try to include technical symbols (the micro- symbol ; deltas ; therefore and because). It's really frustrating to come across Slashdot's inadequacies.
Well, sort of. They've known they have data issues and have been working on solutions since around 2005 (to my memory ; quite likely earlier). For several years NASA (possibly via JPL, CalTech or somesuch intermediary) were funding Vint Cerf to work up proposals for modifying the packet switching techniques used in TCP & IP to handle the greater (and very variable time of flight latency issues between nodes, the re-transmission requests, what to do about reassembling packets at intermediate nodes ... a number of issues. One version has been successfully working relaying data between surface devices (Spirit, Pathfinder, Opportunity ...) and orbital devices (Mars Reconnaisence Orbiter, Mars Express) then from the orbiter to Earth. That still leaves certain periods (opposition, when the Sun is between Earth and Mars) when communications are unreliable, but there are far fewer times when you can't get a signal from Earth to the surface of Mars and back.
The next step would be to put additional relays in Earth-trojan (or maybe Venus-trojan, for the solar power) orbits so that opposition problems are reduced further. What the schedule on that is, I don't know. But after that, essentially any point in the solar system could be predictable linked to Earth through 3 hops ("regions" in IPN terminology). You'd still have time of flight issues, but they're the law, and they seem to be manageable.
Sounds like someone is using a Cubesat module.
I take it that all the first amendment supporters got shot by the second amendment supporters.
Citation very definitely required.
Just for a start, hospital groups would need to set up an accounts payable system for charging people. As well as feeding the landsharks enough to get them to breed (or however it is that you get more lawyers) for the inevitable appeals and disputes.
How does that muscle memory help when you switch to a different keyboard layout? I switch, several times a day, between EN_UK, RU_RU, PO_PO and DE_DE. Sometimes several times per document.
In context, what they say is
In propaganda terms, this is spreading despair and dissension, and does not need to be true. For example, the ludicrously implausible statement that "Donald Trump is President of America" spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt throughout the world, regardless of it's truthfulness.
They do take a roundabout path to get to their point (I'm trying to remember the name of the technique ; it's not reductio ad absurdam, but it's down that rhetorical path), but by talking through why it's implausible that we'd be able to safely decode and decontaminate a complex ETI message, they show why any METI ("Messaging" counterpart to SETI) that we do should be of the simplest of data types.
Ever had that guy at work proposing "If we can add $FEATURE$ to #NEWPRODUCT#, woudn't that be great?" Well they're getting their defence against that in first.
I bet it started over beers at a conference though.
I recognise Hippke's name from something recently. [Searches] Results for "Interstellar Communication" : there has been a burst of such short papers from him over the last 6 months or so, including one on bit rates achievable from interstellar probes, which I remember reading. May have submitted it here too. Other work on Kepler data, exoplanets, exo-Trojans etc. Perfectly solid science.
(Which, containing considerable amounts of metals, is likely to remain relatively conspicuous, at least compared to a 1inch quartz disc. )
"OK, I've found the Control key. I really believe I'd use this gun to protect schoolchildren. I'v... oh damn, I've shot myself in the leg."
[Later] "OK, leg bandaged. Control key. Alt key. But where is the Pussygrab key?"
... the well-known work-a-like of As-Easy-As.
Checks the copyrights on my installed games. 1991 (I brought it on floppy disc) ; 1994 (4 or 5 stiffy discs) and 2017 (Freeware, but essentially replicating something I pirated in 1989).
What is this thing about "game servers"? What the hell is the point of a game that requires you to connect to the internet?