I was under the impression that solar winds played a bigger part in solar sails, which turns out not to be the case (who actually reads the links posted on Slashdot?)
As I suspected from your later posts. The balance would probably change with the colour of the star - higher energy photons have higher momentum. (I think. Hmmm, I can't see how they couldn't have, but I don't actually have a solid datum to hang that assertion on. Have to think on that somewhat more.) Then again, higher temperature stars certainly can have some pretty savage stellar winds too. Odds of a civilisation developing around a Wolf-Rayet star?
. But if I did have a brain tumour or some "interesting pathology", that wasn't the most sensitive way of confronting me about it.
You and I both have SlashID's in the low five digits. We can pretty much get away with anything without losing geek cred.
This "Friends" phenomenon to which you refer - I deduce from your embarrassment that it is a television programme of some form, and from observation I suspect that it would have been broadcast in one or several of the decades when I didn't waste time by having a television. Am I correct in my deductions? What characteristics did it have that makes your knowledge of it so painfully disgusting? Or do I need to perform an obscene penetration ritual involving a rubber replica of one of the (presumend) programme's (presumed) stars before I am deemed self-abused enough to know?
BTW, the cheapest way for a long, long time will probably be a reaaally large space-based telescope somewhere far away to keep it nice and cold. Not cheap in absolute terms, but certainly cheaper than any kind of interstellar probe.
For certain meanings of "long time" : I'm a geologist, and my meaning of "long time" is rather different to the meaning of a Thai bar girl telling me that she'll "love me long time". Though our meanings of "love" are probably more-or-less congruent. I see your "long time" and wonder if the duration would really be noticeable. The process of putting the bigger and bigger telescopes progressively further and further away will of course give us experience in several incrementally important technologies : those of making and moving big things in space, and those of keeping people in a habitable environment in space for longer and longer periods of time. By the time that we're putting the third Outer Kuiper Telescope in place, each one of which involves sending a ten-person crew on a three year mission to the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt, then the prospect of sending ten consecutive thirty-person trips on thirty year missions to Proxima Centauri would appear considerably less daunting. The interstellar trip would appear even less daunting if they knew that two ten-person inhabitation modules (a standard design, with a hundred-year proven working life) had arrived and gone into a parking orbit at Proxima, and that another four modules are in flight, due to arrive before they do with additional ones being launched every second year thereafter until Proxima Colony tells Old Home Terra to stop throwing tin cans. The automated solar cell (hmmm, that name will have to change!) factory might also be in flight, so the first things to do on arrival at Proxima would be to collect several gigatonnes of iceballs for reaction mass (just like refuelling the reactors for the Outer Kuiper Telescope), and then settle down to breeding and building another asteroid civilisation. Planets? Well, if there are any, they might get colonised one day, but the important things would need to be done first. After all, terraforming is really hard, and it's hard to envisage how the original Earthlings did it without modern technology.
The technologies necessary to real long-distance space travel are far more likely to appear incrementally than as a result of some huge politically-inspired push. The only thing that's likely to provide that sort of push at the moment is an incoming "dinosaur killer", and by the time that we've got twenty permanently-inhabited space stations, that is unlikely to be much of a real threat. Otherwise, it's the old "boiled frog" combination of overpopulation and overconsumption that are going to kill your species.
Even though it uses light and not solar winds, an equivalent concept of a Heliopause would probably still take effect (the closer you get to the other star the more its light counters Sol).
True, but not particularly important. Most of the benefit of the "launching lasers" you get by getting up to a high speed fairly soon, reducing your time of flight. If you're only (or largely) powered by launching lasers and solar sails, then you'll be expecting to have an asymmetric journey in both distance and time, because the high intensity of the "launching lasers" at the Sol end of the journey would need to be counteracted by the lower intensity of the light from the target star over a longer distance and duration.
Using an interstellar laser to push it isn't really practical as at those distances it becomes horribly difficult to aim the laser with such precision. Assuming your laser could aim precisely, by the time you realise you are pointing in the wrong direction and make a correction, it will take years for the correction to take effect, by which time the sail has already moved.
Your laser will have a certain divergence of beam, due to manufacture errors. As you get further away, the intensity will drop (this is part of the reason that you get up to speed as soon as possible, and will, indeed eventually the "launching lasers" will become useless. But regardless, you don't steer the ship by moving the laser, you steer it by tilting the sail. With a solar sail, you get two types of drive. Some drive is from particles of solar wind travelling (more-or-less) radially out from Sol hitting the sail and sticking. These transfer their momentum vector directly to the sail, and hence to the towed payload. Their impulse on the sail will always be radial to the target star (to moderate precision). The other source of drive though is from photons that hit the sail and are reflected from the sail's surface. These, as a moment's consideration will tell you, will provide an impulse vector to the sail (and hence, to the payload) which is in the direction of the bisector of the angle between the direction of the incoming photon and the direction of the outgoing photon. In short, the sailor can "tack" his vessel against the light-wind from the "launching lasers". The control system is at the sailor's end, not the launching laser's end ; the launching laser jockey simply points his laser at the target star and leaves it up to the sailor to stay within the beam ; the sailor has to work out how to make the final cruise form the light beam to the target star, knowing that an error either kills everyone on board, or means an unnecessary year in the tin can (which is also likely to be a death sentence for the erring sailor).
Byproduct : if a solar sail powered probe is launched from star A to star B, then for a number of years before the arrival of the probe at star B, there will be an intense, monochromatic source of light shining from star A at star B. In short, a very bright warning light. Reference reading : " The Mote in God's Eye (Orbit Books) (Paperback) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Author) ; classic hard SF. Byproduct 2 : if your solar sail-powered craft approaches the target star without being greeted or communicated with... then the inhabitants are either dead, or live underground, or have yet to learn to bang the rocks together. Or just possibly use visual pigments that work in a very different part of the spectrum to your launching lasers.
Hmmm : multi-wavelength launching lasers. Possible? Helpful? Problematic? I'll have to think about that.
Wouldn't solar sails fail to work once you reach the Heliopause?
I'm trying to work out what could lead you to think that was the case. No, seriously, I'd like to know. I fail to imagine how one could possibly think that, so either the sources that you have consulted have given you some erroneous impressions, or you have some interesting pathology, like a growing brain tumour. The former, I can probably do something about by editing the article appropriately ; the latter, you might be interested to know about. (For completeness, it is possible that the limits of my imagination of aberrant logic and thought processes are narrower than I think, but I've been dealing with Creationists and such like delusional people for long enough that I thought I'd got a good idea of the depths to which people are capable of sinking. In which case, I'd learn something from the encounter.)
They skipped 13 for superstitious reasons. Just like floor numbers in a building.
I was flying back from work yesterday and noticed that the seat rows behind row 12 had had sticky labels pasted over the factory-installed labels. Sure enough, no row thirteen any more. Which is quite worrying. The aircraft manufacturers (I think it was a Fokker, but I don't remember for sure and care even less) are clearly rational, but the company who hires the pilots are clearly irrational. That is scary. Well, in the extremely unlikely event that I book a ticket for a civilian flight with the same company (I'm not sure that they fly civvies, or that they fly any routes other than ABZ-SCS. And again, I could care less.), I'll be sure to insist on flying on row thirteen. Just because I don't think that such sloppy thinking should be allowed to go unchallenged. Particularly in the technological fields.
I was asked, well if your car suddenly accelerated out of control, what will you do!
Push my clutch in. Manual transmissions rock:)
Is it true that the mean IQ of American drivers dropped by a noticeable amount over the decade that automatic transmissions became normal?
And - slightly related - is there anywhere in the world other than America where the automatic gearbox is anything other than extremely rare? (In over 20 years of driving, I've driven only one, and that less than 5 times.)
Or, more likely, EU courts are more likely to award costs where they belong. So, the standard US strategy of extending and extending the court case until the opponent is bankrupt just backfires.
That's why the earlier poster from the UK was careful to specify going to "Small Claims Court" : the costs are all up-front, the risk of the costs is carried by the claimant, and the costs (including costs of collection) can be reclaimed from the defendant (assuming that the claimant wins). Last time I used the system, I paid (IIRC) £34 to submit the paperwork to the court, the case was heard and found in my favour, and the defendant failed to pay. So, I took the court papers and the defendant's details to a court-approved debt collection company who, for a fee, door-stepped the defendant's Boss on a Sunday morning to serve the arrestment-of-wages order. Instead the defendant got fired and was then evicted from his flat, disappearing from any address I knew of. Two years later... I see the defendent's name on a personnel list for a job, double-checked that it was him (not just someone with the same name), and within 6 hours, his new Boss had the arrestment-of-wages paperwork on his desk for the original judgement, plus two sets of debt-collector's fees. I got paid.
In a commercial situation, many companies can't be bothered to send a lawyer to contest a SCC case and either fold, or negotiate. And that's not considering the concerns about bad publicity. Personally, I find that reminding a supervisor of the full version of the First Law of Advertising is normally sufficient : the short form is "There is no good advert like a satisfied customer", and the oft-forgotten second half is "there is no bad advert as bad as a dissatisfied customer". "Dissatisfied", is of course, a fairly broad term, and leaves the manager with room to negotiate.
A year later, [SNIP] and the Indian guy is nowhere to be found. My acquaintance can't even get his password to login to the site and disable the malware.
That is your friend's fault for not ensuring that he had the passwords as part of the late stage of paying for the job. No password ; no second half of the payment. That's as dumb as buying a car but not getting the keys. If you knew about this before your friend ran into trouble, then you're at fault for not telling him of the hazards that he's risking.
My second question: Where does your organization get the money to pay for the raw materials and the elves' wages? I don't see how your theme park outside Evansville pays for everything.
Four words : "tooth", "fairy" , "overpriced" and "dentistry"
I have money. I am not a business. I would pay to not be automatically trackable
Set up a front business in a suitable jurisdiction with one person employed who spends an hour a month answering the phone. You could probably make the whole setup tax-deductable by hiring a mentally-handicapped person to act as your "receptionist".
the last symbol, which looks a little like a b, has no phonetic value of its own
"the soft sign", it changes the consonant that it follows. But my Russian is poor enough (and little enough practiced) that I can't give you an example. I just ignore it when I'm making some attempt at Russian.
Oh, come on! Are you claiming that all that semen swallowing and pelvic-wall exercising, plus whatever other orifices she whored out weren't honest work?
(No, I haven't bothered to read the article - some sportsman getting fucked royally by some bibmo, as I deduce from the title, but that's not clear about which gender or genders were involved. After all, who but Murdoch readers would give a fuck?
I continue to get a kick out of the Chinese government's fixation on the Dalai Lama. If the whole thing didn't involve the theft of a nation and the brutal repression of the Tibetan people, the situation would be hilarious in a Monthy Python sort of way.
It's for when I take my iPad to the UK and Germany. I get one of those three way AC adapters so it works no matter which country I'm in.
It's for when I take my iPad to the UK and Germany. I get one of those three way AC adapters so it burns the house to the ground no matter which country I'm in. FTFY
(I think there was a scare a few years ago with the iSomething getting recalled for burning cables, but WTF, I could probalby make the same joke about batteries if I could be bothered.)
The right thing is obviously to sue the true rights holders in a protracted and monumentally expensive legal battle dragging your name through the mud and ultimately making a complete ass of yourself, after artificially inflating your stock price for a little while.
There is a man in Utah (I think) who is interested in your plan and wishes to invest his unemployment benefits in suing you for infringement of his patents. Call Darl@mcdonalds.ut.us
As a doctor, if I did that, I'd be fired and probably have my license taken away. Why should the police, who have the power of life or death over Joe Public not have to be held up to the same strict standards? Fire those cops, I say.
The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities will be sending the boys around with your ticket to Guantanamo, Real Soon Now. You should be calling for their execution, not their dismissal.
Or did you mean to have them executed by burning at the stake? That would be a violation of some pre-millennial rules about "cruel and unusual punishment", so that'll be alright.
... but they won't see me paying that. I don't object to paying that sort of price for ink-on-paper, but I can't see any reason to pay it for bit and alleged convenience. At that sort of price, if I'm interested in a product, then I'd be more likely to buy the ink-on-paper and then either snarf a torrent of a PDF, or if really necessary, scan/OCR the thing myself. I probably wouldn't seed a torrent of a PDF that I created (for my convenience, not for circumventing payment to the authors, but I don't have one qualm about getting and using PDFs of books that I have in ink-on-dead-tree format. I've paid for access to that information, and I'm damned well going to use it!
(Yes, I did see that the origiinal citation was for $14.99 ; I've just performed the normal trans-Atlantic currency conversion.)
I see the word "wireframe"... and my memory lurches back to the two different versions ("wireframe" and "solid") of the old "Elite" for PCs. Now there's a piece of gaming history to aim for! Mining lasers fore and aft, fuel scoops at the ready, and here come the Fer-de-Lances!
Oh, could this possibly hurt SlashDot's advertising income stream? I neither know, nor care. I've had the option of switching off the advertising for I-forget-how-long, but I hadn't done it because I figure... they need the hits counting. But along came this stupid idea, and in goes the AdBlock filter. 'Nuff said.
If dyslexia is a real complaint (not proven), that's even less excuse to not use the readily available tools to assist controlling it. That is rather like someone who knows that they're short-sighted complaining about other drivers not driving closely enough to be seen.
kicked in
I've never heard anyone claiming that dyslexia is an intermittent complaint.
and I repeated "and for" and woooo I missed a , big fucking deal.
Your post still doesn't make (much) sense if parsed with that claim in mind.
Are your reading skills that poor?
No. I routinely have to deal with English used as a second (or third, or fourth) language. You grammar is the problem.
Its a comment not a fucking essay.
You post in a public forum, under what appears to be a real name, and you don't care about the impression that you give to people who might have to deal with you in real life. Of course it's a fucking essay. Every word that you write and speak with your name and/ or face attached has the potential to come back and haunt you.
Are you one of these people who object to potential future employers checking out your online writings? Perhaps you are. Life must be a bitch.
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As I suspected from your later posts. The balance would probably change with the colour of the star - higher energy photons have higher momentum. (I think. Hmmm, I can't see how they couldn't have, but I don't actually have a solid datum to hang that assertion on. Have to think on that somewhat more.) Then again, higher temperature stars certainly can have some pretty savage stellar winds too. Odds of a civilisation developing around a Wolf-Rayet star?
Life isn't sensitive.
This "Friends" phenomenon to which you refer - I deduce from your embarrassment that it is a television programme of some form, and from observation I suspect that it would have been broadcast in one or several of the decades when I didn't waste time by having a television. Am I correct in my deductions?
What characteristics did it have that makes your knowledge of it so painfully disgusting? Or do I need to perform an obscene penetration ritual involving a rubber replica of one of the (presumend) programme's (presumed) stars before I am deemed self-abused enough to know?
Isn't that rather like saying that Antony and Cleopatra were immune to Swine Flu by dint of being dead at the time?
For certain meanings of "long time" : I'm a geologist, and my meaning of "long time" is rather different to the meaning of a Thai bar girl telling me that she'll "love me long time". Though our meanings of "love" are probably more-or-less congruent. I see your "long time" and wonder if the duration would really be noticeable.
The process of putting the bigger and bigger telescopes progressively further and further away will of course give us experience in several incrementally important technologies : those of making and moving big things in space, and those of keeping people in a habitable environment in space for longer and longer periods of time. By the time that we're putting the third Outer Kuiper Telescope in place, each one of which involves sending a ten-person crew on a three year mission to the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt, then the prospect of sending ten consecutive thirty-person trips on thirty year missions to Proxima Centauri would appear considerably less daunting.
The interstellar trip would appear even less daunting if they knew that two ten-person inhabitation modules (a standard design, with a hundred-year proven working life) had arrived and gone into a parking orbit at Proxima, and that another four modules are in flight, due to arrive before they do with additional ones being launched every second year thereafter until Proxima Colony tells Old Home Terra to stop throwing tin cans. The automated solar cell (hmmm, that name will have to change!) factory might also be in flight, so the first things to do on arrival at Proxima would be to collect several gigatonnes of iceballs for reaction mass (just like refuelling the reactors for the Outer Kuiper Telescope), and then settle down to breeding and building another asteroid civilisation. Planets? Well, if there are any, they might get colonised one day, but the important things would need to be done first. After all, terraforming is really hard, and it's hard to envisage how the original Earthlings did it without modern technology.
The technologies necessary to real long-distance space travel are far more likely to appear incrementally than as a result of some huge politically-inspired push. The only thing that's likely to provide that sort of push at the moment is an incoming "dinosaur killer", and by the time that we've got twenty permanently-inhabited space stations, that is unlikely to be much of a real threat. Otherwise, it's the old "boiled frog" combination of overpopulation and overconsumption that are going to kill your species.
True, but not particularly important. Most of the benefit of the "launching lasers" you get by getting up to a high speed fairly soon, reducing your time of flight. If you're only (or largely) powered by launching lasers and solar sails, then you'll be expecting to have an asymmetric journey in both distance and time, because the high intensity of the "launching lasers" at the Sol end of the journey would need to be counteracted by the lower intensity of the light from the target star over a longer distance and duration.
Your laser will have a certain divergence of beam, due to manufacture errors. As you get further away, the intensity will drop (this is part of the reason that you get up to speed as soon as possible, and will, indeed eventually the "launching lasers" will become useless. But regardless, you don't steer the ship by moving the laser, you steer it by tilting the sail.
With a solar sail, you get two types of drive. Some drive is from particles of solar wind travelling (more-or-less) radially out from Sol hitting the sail and sticking. These transfer their momentum vector directly to the sail, and hence to the towed payload. Their impulse on the sail will always be radial to the target star (to moderate precision). The other source of drive though is from photons that hit the sail and are reflected from the sail's surface. These, as a moment's consideration will tell you, will provide an impulse vector to the sail (and hence, to the payload) which is in the direction of the bisector of the angle between the direction of the incoming photon and the direction of the outgoing photon. In short, the sailor can "tack" his vessel against the light-wind from the "launching lasers". The control system is at the sailor's end, not the launching laser's end ; the launching laser jockey simply points his laser at the target star and leaves it up to the sailor to stay within the beam ; the sailor has to work out how to make the final cruise form the light beam to the target star, knowing that an error either kills everyone on board, or means an unnecessary year in the tin can (which is also likely to be a death sentence for the erring sailor).
Byproduct : if a solar sail powered probe is launched from star A to star B, then for a number of years before the arrival of the probe at star B, there will be an intense, monochromatic source of light shining from star A at star B. In short, a very bright warning light. ... then the inhabitants are either dead, or live underground, or have yet to learn to bang the rocks together. Or just possibly use visual pigments that work in a very different part of the spectrum to your launching lasers.
Reference reading : " The Mote in God's Eye (Orbit Books) (Paperback) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Author) ; classic hard SF.
Byproduct 2 : if your solar sail-powered craft approaches the target star without being greeted or communicated with
Hmmm : multi-wavelength launching lasers. Possible? Helpful? Problematic? I'll have to think about that.
I'm trying to work out what could lead you to think that was the case.
No, seriously, I'd like to know. I fail to imagine how one could possibly think that, so either the sources that you have consulted have given you some erroneous impressions, or you have some interesting pathology, like a growing brain tumour. The former, I can probably do something about by editing the article appropriately ; the latter, you might be interested to know about.
(For completeness, it is possible that the limits of my imagination of aberrant logic and thought processes are narrower than I think, but I've been dealing with Creationists and such like delusional people for long enough that I thought I'd got a good idea of the depths to which people are capable of sinking. In which case, I'd learn something from the encounter.)
I was flying back from work yesterday and noticed that the seat rows behind row 12 had had sticky labels pasted over the factory-installed labels. Sure enough, no row thirteen any more.
Which is quite worrying. The aircraft manufacturers (I think it was a Fokker, but I don't remember for sure and care even less) are clearly rational, but the company who hires the pilots are clearly irrational. That is scary.
Well, in the extremely unlikely event that I book a ticket for a civilian flight with the same company (I'm not sure that they fly civvies, or that they fly any routes other than ABZ-SCS. And again, I could care less.), I'll be sure to insist on flying on row thirteen. Just because I don't think that such sloppy thinking should be allowed to go unchallenged. Particularly in the technological fields.
Is it true that the mean IQ of American drivers dropped by a noticeable amount over the decade that automatic transmissions became normal?
And - slightly related - is there anywhere in the world other than America where the automatic gearbox is anything other than extremely rare? (In over 20 years of driving, I've driven only one, and that less than 5 times.)
That's why the earlier poster from the UK was careful to specify going to "Small Claims Court" : the costs are all up-front, the risk of the costs is carried by the claimant, and the costs (including costs of collection) can be reclaimed from the defendant (assuming that the claimant wins). ... I see the defendent's name on a personnel list for a job, double-checked that it was him (not just someone with the same name), and within 6 hours, his new Boss had the arrestment-of-wages paperwork on his desk for the original judgement, plus two sets of debt-collector's fees. I got paid.
Last time I used the system, I paid (IIRC) £34 to submit the paperwork to the court, the case was heard and found in my favour, and the defendant failed to pay. So, I took the court papers and the defendant's details to a court-approved debt collection company who, for a fee, door-stepped the defendant's Boss on a Sunday morning to serve the arrestment-of-wages order. Instead the defendant got fired and was then evicted from his flat, disappearing from any address I knew of.
Two years later
In a commercial situation, many companies can't be bothered to send a lawyer to contest a SCC case and either fold, or negotiate. And that's not considering the concerns about bad publicity.
Personally, I find that reminding a supervisor of the full version of the First Law of Advertising is normally sufficient : the short form is "There is no good advert like a satisfied customer", and the oft-forgotten second half is "there is no bad advert as bad as a dissatisfied customer". "Dissatisfied", is of course, a fairly broad term, and leaves the manager with room to negotiate.
That is your friend's fault for not ensuring that he had the passwords as part of the late stage of paying for the job. No password ; no second half of the payment. That's as dumb as buying a car but not getting the keys.
If you knew about this before your friend ran into trouble, then you're at fault for not telling him of the hazards that he's risking.
Four words : "tooth", "fairy" , "overpriced" and "dentistry"
Set up a front business in a suitable jurisdiction with one person employed who spends an hour a month answering the phone. You could probably make the whole setup tax-deductable by hiring a mentally-handicapped person to act as your "receptionist".
"the soft sign", it changes the consonant that it follows. But my Russian is poor enough (and little enough practiced) that I can't give you an example. I just ignore it when I'm making some attempt at Russian.
Oh, come on! Are you claiming that all that semen swallowing and pelvic-wall exercising, plus whatever other orifices she whored out weren't honest work?
(No, I haven't bothered to read the article - some sportsman getting fucked royally by some bibmo, as I deduce from the title, but that's not clear about which gender or genders were involved. After all, who but Murdoch readers would give a fuck?
But we have found lice.
s/Chinese/British
s/Dalai Lama/Mahatma Ghandi/
s/Tibet/India/
Now do you see why the Chinese are worried?
BTW, there's one fewer 'h' in Monty Python than you think. Or one more 'l', depending on which joke you're trying to make.
It's for when I take my iPad to the UK and Germany. I get one of those three way AC adapters so it burns the house to the ground no matter which country I'm in.
FTFY
(I think there was a scare a few years ago with the iSomething getting recalled for burning cables, but WTF, I could probalby make the same joke about batteries if I could be bothered.)
There is a man in Utah (I think) who is interested in your plan and wishes to invest his unemployment benefits in suing you for infringement of his patents. Call Darl@mcdonalds.ut.us
The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities will be sending the boys around with your ticket to Guantanamo, Real Soon Now. You should be calling for their execution, not their dismissal.
Or did you mean to have them executed by burning at the stake? That would be a violation of some pre-millennial rules about "cruel and unusual punishment", so that'll be alright.
... but they won't see me paying that.
I don't object to paying that sort of price for ink-on-paper, but I can't see any reason to pay it for bit and alleged convenience. At that sort of price, if I'm interested in a product, then I'd be more likely to buy the ink-on-paper and then either snarf a torrent of a PDF, or if really necessary, scan/OCR the thing myself. I probably wouldn't seed a torrent of a PDF that I created (for my convenience, not for circumventing payment to the authors, but I don't have one qualm about getting and using PDFs of books that I have in ink-on-dead-tree format. I've paid for access to that information, and I'm damned well going to use it!
(Yes, I did see that the origiinal citation was for $14.99 ; I've just performed the normal trans-Atlantic currency conversion.)
I see the word "wireframe" ... and my memory lurches back to the two different versions ("wireframe" and "solid") of the old "Elite" for PCs. Now there's a piece of gaming history to aim for!
Mining lasers fore and aft, fuel scoops at the ready, and here come the Fer-de-Lances!
My sig should say it all ... and it does.
Oh, could this possibly hurt SlashDot's advertising income stream? I neither know, nor care. I've had the option of switching off the advertising for I-forget-how-long, but I hadn't done it because I figure ... they need the hits counting. But along came this stupid idea, and in goes the AdBlock filter.
'Nuff said.
If dyslexia is a real complaint (not proven), that's even less excuse to not use the readily available tools to assist controlling it. That is rather like someone who knows that they're short-sighted complaining about other drivers not driving closely enough to be seen.
I've never heard anyone claiming that dyslexia is an intermittent complaint.
Your post still doesn't make (much) sense if parsed with that claim in mind.
No. I routinely have to deal with English used as a second (or third, or fourth) language. You grammar is the problem.
You post in a public forum, under what appears to be a real name, and you don't care about the impression that you give to people who might have to deal with you in real life. Of course it's a fucking essay. Every word that you write and speak with your name and/ or face attached has the potential to come back and haunt you.
Are you one of these people who object to potential future employers checking out your online writings? Perhaps you are. Life must be a bitch.
Hmmm ... that raises prospects. The "Darling" issue, combined with Heisenberg's principle. There are jokes to be made from that combination.
But I want to get rid of this Slashroulette shit first.
The name is "Darling".
I thought you said you wanted to live ; better learn that one fast!