Then when I finally got it checked: "The mobo is fried, you need to change it. Ooops, sorry, just out of warranty".
So, you not taking your malfunctioning phone into the supplier's for repair is someone else's fault? That is what warranties are for - persuading people to get their devices (which presumably have fallen on the unhelpful side of th bathtub failure rate curve) off the street and fixed, instead of floating around pissing off their users and damaging the brand's reputation.
I note there are no claims of "they balked at giving me an RMA or repair ticket code for 3 months," or "they said thee was no warranty scheme because I have green hair and a nose-ring." No your story is "I waited too long and the warranty expired, as the documents I got with the device told me they would.
Didn't you read the manual and the warranty registration card when you got the device? Even when the salesman put the gun to your head?
Photons dont leave except via blackbody radiation.
I don't think that that ("blackbody radiation!) means what you seem to think it means. Blackbody radiation is composed of photons. (At least until you get into the tens of millions of Kelvin, when you might have spontaneous conversion of some of the photons into electron-positron pairs.)
Nice piece of buzzword biscuit you've got there. Flour, bread, and an oven for 25 minutes? Anything more substantial to it?
the null device in this case were identical to the other _except_ it didn't contain internal elements that the Cannea drive theory claimed was essential for functions. In other words what the test showed was that those internal elements weren't necessary for the function of the unit, nothing more - nothing less.
So whoever or whatever Cannea is or are doesn't know how this divice works- if indeed it does work.
If one of the promoters is keen to pay - from their own pockets, or from their investors pockets - for a test version to fly, then I see no reason to not let them. Other people with devices flying on the same launch might have grounds for concern, but that's between the launch company, the "Pixie dust Drive promoters, and anyone else paying to use that rocket. Oh, the bank where the cheque is cashed may have words too, if the cheque bounces.
What would be really quite interesting is if the "drive" does get flown, and your reports of the "null test are substantially accurate, because that then means that we have a potentiay useful space drive system, which nobody understands the working of. I'll get my chicken bones and Ouija board.
Oh, links you RECEIVE in email.
I don't think I've seen that as a problem in either Yahoo or Gmail. Hotmail is a terminal mail service for me - mail in, nothing out by mail, but no I don't see that problem there either. Plenty of spam, but not that problem. I get a mail from my electronics supplier, and I open a new tab, type in the suppliers home page, and then log in. No problems that I see.
if you think otherwise then I invite you to permanently abstain from TV, movies, music, paintings, essays, etc.
Music and paintings certainly are a waste of space. Most movies too - there are some decent documentaries. TV has some useful documentaries and news - which is what I use it for. Radio more so.
Show me something useful that philosophy has done and I'll maybe think about giving it a few more hours of attention. Art can be profitable. Useless, but profitable.
Nothing was lost by including the information and if it helped a few it was helpful.
Having both metric units and imperial errors means that several people who would have died of apoplectic fits when only the metric units are presented. The continued avoidance of the grave by these animated corpses (what's the modern word - zombies?) is slowing the acceptance of metric.
Any real scientist knows: Nullis in verba [wikipedia.org], or question everything. We thought the world was flat,
You quote the motto of the Royal Society, then repeat one of the most bullshitty bits of bullshit in the lexicon of bullshit.
Just who in the world who thought about the shape of the world thought that the world was flat? And when did they think it? The ancient Greeks knew that the word was round because they observed (that thing you so glibly toss around behind "Nullis in verba") the the shadow of the Earth cast on the face of the Moon during eclipses was round. That's why Eratosthenes was able to estimate the diameter of the Earth to 10-15% in the 3rd century BCE. Ever since then people have known that the Earth isn't flat.
There was some dude in the early 19th century who made that bullshit up - and it has stuck. Because people mouth "Nullis in verba" but don't actually do their own homework.
an exchange of science, art, culture, and philosophy could be a practical reality. And any civilization we can detect across interstellar distances is almost certainly far more technologically advanced than we are, so there's no telling what we might learn.
You spend a lot of your time and effort on teaching chimpanzees the ethics of flinging poo around the cage?
(Apologies to any chimps intelligent enough to be offended by the poo-flinging stereotype. Hey guys, we've got a presidential candidate like Trump - you can fling poo all you wnt and still have us beat by a mile.)
If these putative aliens are only a million years ahead of us, well, them talking to us would be like us talking to chimpanzees on a technology designed and built by the chimpanzees. Poo-flinging in Morse code? So once they've learned our language (come on - it's going to go the other way? Get real.), they're going to teach us their science. Well, since science at least should be a universal, so their science should be something that applies to our part of the universe. "art" - most modern human art is incomprehensible to most humans already, so what is going to happen with alien art? Nothing except an excuse for bearded wankers (of any gender) to pontificate over something meaningless. "culture" - that's something you keep in a Petri dish, isn't it, because otherwise it's going to have as few referents as the subtleties of Chimpanzee poo-flinging have to us. Same comments for the philosophy. It's already a meaningless merry-go-round, so that's going to be a lot of use too.
Since the star is 95 LY away, that would imply that if the "mirror" is at the star, then the round-trip time would be 190 years. So, a very powerful terrestrial signal at 11 GHz in 1826.
I'm not even sure that sparks generate anything like that high a frequency. They were just getting as far as solenoids and galvanometers, as I recall. Maybe just getting a handle on induction.
I actually get really frustrated because 99% of all email links cannot be clicked because of embedded tracking information.
Hmmm, An option that might be useful could be mapping (some control key+ CLICK) to "present URL in editable window and then follow link after editing".
I regularly chop of all that tracking shit when forwarding links to people. It does get tedious after a time.
This also happens because companies use 3rd-party email providers, which cause email links for banks and credit card companies to point to some3rdparty.com instead of the bank itself.
You have a bank that conducts business my EMAIL ??? Who the hell are they, so I can avoid them?
Personally, I much prefer to check out my bank's security by kicking the bottom of the door as I walk in, to check if it sounds rotten. I do log onto my bank account every month or three - in fact I'll need to do it on Monday night - but I do that by typing the appropriate address into the location bar.
To be fair, most pages use Javascript to handle links, so even the damn Back button doesn't work anymore, let alone the status bar.
I don't think that I've ever seen that, though I'll be looking for it in the future.
"most sites"? Really? got any numbers to back that up? Or do you mean "most sites that I use" (checks : it's not an AC comment), which may be a very different thing.
(Phylo-)Genetially they're all similarly distant. Not as distant as crocodiles or tuataras (common other contenders for "surviving dinosaurs"), but they all come from a theropod group which shared ancestors with the dromaeosauridae.
In terms of behaviour and appearance, most commentators would suggest one of the ratites - ostrich, emu or... cassowary. On the other hand, all of these are fairly likely to rip your liver out and show it to you while your vision turns red and fades out and they tuck in.
Psittaciformes (parrots) are one of the more deeply rooted families in the modern bird family tree. If you want a pet bird, a captive-bred (not, for fuck's sake, a wild-caught one) is a good place to start thinking. Since they often live into the high decades, be prepared for a lifetime commitment.
There's only a "buttsex" joke in there if you're an American obsessed with such things.
Since you see one, I take it that you're a Christian priest of some sort.
I realize Melbourne, Australia is a big deal, and it seems like with a city that large, Microsoft and Apple and others could afford to hire one person whose job is to make sure they get stuff right.
More to the point, why doesn't Melbourne have someone (or a bunch of someones, possibly retired, with a curmudgeonly streak a metre wide) to check these things, for Melbourne. And to submit complaints. And re-submit them. And re-submit them. Until they get fixed.
Decent test. But at 560-odd km range, there would probably have been some ash fall and sound of distant explosions. Just like the 1990 (Kelud), 1982 (Galunggung, of the Glider fame), 1966 (Kelud again), 1951 (Kelud again), 1919 (Kelud, again!) eruptions.
If he's that old, he could maybe tell us some stuff about the late 19th century. That predates planes, cars, WW1. What was it like?
In central Java, probably sensibly indistinguishable from 1940. Probably (I don't know the history of the suppression of the revolution well enough) the World War 2 and the Malaysian Emergency might have made some impression - if the Japanese got that far south.
The changes in the last 3/4-century are probably much more noticeable than those in the previous 3/4-century.
Which skydiving firm? If you're doing it regularly, who needs to pay someone to check your harness? If no-one will hire you a plane and pilot, than go BASE.
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So, you not taking your malfunctioning phone into the supplier's for repair is someone else's fault? That is what warranties are for - persuading people to get their devices (which presumably have fallen on the unhelpful side of th bathtub failure rate curve) off the street and fixed, instead of floating around pissing off their users and damaging the brand's reputation.
I note there are no claims of "they balked at giving me an RMA or repair ticket code for 3 months," or "they said thee was no warranty scheme because I have green hair and a nose-ring." No your story is "I waited too long and the warranty expired, as the documents I got with the device told me they would.
Didn't you read the manual and the warranty registration card when you got the device? Even when the salesman put the gun to your head?
I don't think that that ("blackbody radiation!) means what you seem to think it means. Blackbody radiation is composed of photons. (At least until you get into the tens of millions of Kelvin, when you might have spontaneous conversion of some of the photons into electron-positron pairs.)
Nice piece of buzzword biscuit you've got there. Flour, bread, and an oven for 25 minutes? Anything more substantial to it?
So whoever or whatever Cannea is or are doesn't know how this divice works- if indeed it does work.
If one of the promoters is keen to pay - from their own pockets, or from their investors pockets - for a test version to fly, then I see no reason to not let them. Other people with devices flying on the same launch might have grounds for concern, but that's between the launch company, the "Pixie dust Drive promoters, and anyone else paying to use that rocket. Oh, the bank where the cheque is cashed may have words too, if the cheque bounces.
What would be really quite interesting is if the "drive" does get flown, and your reports of the "null test are substantially accurate, because that then means that we have a potentiay useful space drive system, which nobody understands the working of. I'll get my chicken bones and Ouija board.
Probably means that whoevertheywere.io (I've already forgotten) have folded. Must have been a startup.
Oh, links you RECEIVE in email. I don't think I've seen that as a problem in either Yahoo or Gmail. Hotmail is a terminal mail service for me - mail in, nothing out by mail, but no I don't see that problem there either. Plenty of spam, but not that problem. I get a mail from my electronics supplier, and I open a new tab, type in the suppliers home page, and then log in. No problems that I see.
Music and paintings certainly are a waste of space. Most movies too - there are some decent documentaries. TV has some useful documentaries and news - which is what I use it for. Radio more so.
Show me something useful that philosophy has done and I'll maybe think about giving it a few more hours of attention. Art can be profitable. Useless, but profitable.
So, you don't know your own finances. Right.
Having both metric units and imperial errors means that several people who would have died of apoplectic fits when only the metric units are presented. The continued avoidance of the grave by these animated corpses (what's the modern word - zombies?) is slowing the acceptance of metric.
You quote the motto of the Royal Society, then repeat one of the most bullshitty bits of bullshit in the lexicon of bullshit.
Just who in the world who thought about the shape of the world thought that the world was flat? And when did they think it? The ancient Greeks knew that the word was round because they observed (that thing you so glibly toss around behind "Nullis in verba") the the shadow of the Earth cast on the face of the Moon during eclipses was round. That's why Eratosthenes was able to estimate the diameter of the Earth to 10-15% in the 3rd century BCE. Ever since then people have known that the Earth isn't flat.
There was some dude in the early 19th century who made that bullshit up - and it has stuck. Because people mouth "Nullis in verba" but don't actually do their own homework.
You spend a lot of your time and effort on teaching chimpanzees the ethics of flinging poo around the cage?
(Apologies to any chimps intelligent enough to be offended by the poo-flinging stereotype. Hey guys, we've got a presidential candidate like Trump - you can fling poo all you wnt and still have us beat by a mile.)
If these putative aliens are only a million years ahead of us, well, them talking to us would be like us talking to chimpanzees on a technology designed and built by the chimpanzees. Poo-flinging in Morse code? So once they've learned our language (come on - it's going to go the other way? Get real.), they're going to teach us their science. Well, since science at least should be a universal, so their science should be something that applies to our part of the universe. "art" - most modern human art is incomprehensible to most humans already, so what is going to happen with alien art? Nothing except an excuse for bearded wankers (of any gender) to pontificate over something meaningless. "culture" - that's something you keep in a Petri dish, isn't it, because otherwise it's going to have as few referents as the subtleties of Chimpanzee poo-flinging have to us. Same comments for the philosophy. It's already a meaningless merry-go-round, so that's going to be a lot of use too.
I'm not even sure that sparks generate anything like that high a frequency. They were just getting as far as solenoids and galvanometers, as I recall. Maybe just getting a handle on induction.
Only in some countries with remarkably stupid populations.
Hmmm, An option that might be useful could be mapping (some control key+ CLICK) to "present URL in editable window and then follow link after editing".
I regularly chop of all that tracking shit when forwarding links to people. It does get tedious after a time.
You have a bank that conducts business my EMAIL ??? Who the hell are they, so I can avoid them?
Personally, I much prefer to check out my bank's security by kicking the bottom of the door as I walk in, to check if it sounds rotten. I do log onto my bank account every month or three - in fact I'll need to do it on Monday night - but I do that by typing the appropriate address into the location bar.
I don't think that I've ever seen that, though I'll be looking for it in the future.
"most sites"? Really? got any numbers to back that up? Or do you mean "most sites that I use" (checks : it's not an AC comment), which may be a very different thing.
That sounds like the latest release from Fleshlight Inc.
In terms of behaviour and appearance, most commentators would suggest one of the ratites - ostrich, emu or ... cassowary. On the other hand, all of these are fairly likely to rip your liver out and show it to you while your vision turns red and fades out and they tuck in.
Psittaciformes (parrots) are one of the more deeply rooted families in the modern bird family tree. If you want a pet bird, a captive-bred (not, for fuck's sake, a wild-caught one) is a good place to start thinking. Since they often live into the high decades, be prepared for a lifetime commitment.
There's only a "buttsex" joke in there if you're an American obsessed with such things. Since you see one, I take it that you're a Christian priest of some sort.
Ground-floor living is for the wheel chair-bound.
More to the point, why doesn't Melbourne have someone (or a bunch of someones, possibly retired, with a curmudgeonly streak a metre wide) to check these things, for Melbourne. And to submit complaints. And re-submit them. And re-submit them. Until they get fixed.
Decent test. But at 560-odd km range, there would probably have been some ash fall and sound of distant explosions. Just like the 1990 (Kelud), 1982 (Galunggung, of the Glider fame), 1966 (Kelud again), 1951 (Kelud again), 1919 (Kelud, again!) eruptions.
In central Java, probably sensibly indistinguishable from 1940. Probably (I don't know the history of the suppression of the revolution well enough) the World War 2 and the Malaysian Emergency might have made some impression - if the Japanese got that far south.
The changes in the last 3/4-century are probably much more noticeable than those in the previous 3/4-century.
Which skydiving firm? If you're doing it regularly, who needs to pay someone to check your harness? If no-one will hire you a plane and pilot, than go BASE.
To the best of my knowledge, we don't know what the maximum human lifespan is.
Which I think you recognise.
Solution : roll your own. Choose what you put in your fag.