If you haven't checked out KSP yet, do it now. It is worth it.
Side note: I showed the demo to a middle school administrator at a yard sale I had a few months ago. She was so impressed, she decided to make the game part of the science curriculum.
Like I said, if you haven't checked it out, do it now. You will (probably) not go unimpressed.
Which approach do you think would work best? Roll out a censorship system all at once, much to the protests of everyone, or a little at a time? This amounts to the second example.
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A better reason to not utilize this "service" (read: moneygrab), I have not seen.
Your not fixing the engineering behind it, you replacing a defective part dummy!
A) Coding != Engineering. Otherwise CIS degrees would have an "E" in there somewhere. Not to mention, if patching defective code is not analogous to replacing defective car parts, I don't know what analogous is (Hint: I do).
B) Even if it coding did == engineering, that doesn't fix the logical flaw in OP's reasoning. Heck, if anything, it makes him seem that much more of an elitist prick, expecting everyone who owns a TV to understand how it's engineered.
3) As a professionally trained mechanic with 20 years experience, I can tell you with confidence that, a good 60-80% of the time, "replacing a defective part" on most modern (and many classic) automobiles entails a fair amount of engineering.
In that case - I'm telling the phone company who cannot call me
Good luck with that - I work with telcos every day, and it is my experience that getting them to block a number for a customer is slightly more difficult than trying to perform dental surgery on a rabid Bengal tiger.
Seriously. Sometimes some of my clients will get harassing calls that tie up every single line in a 10-line PBX, and the only way to get the phone company to take any action whatsoever is to file a police report.
We shouldn't have to go to the cops to block some asshole from harassing us.
vlm specifically implied that Americans are being extradited to other countries for doing things that aren't illegal in America - I contend that point, and the lack of supporting citation.
No, read his post, he said doing things illegal in the US (as in, against the law in the US) while being in a foreign country.
That's a negatory, Ghostrider. vlm's post, verbatim:
Extradition treaties. You live in.us and uploaded a wedding picture of your wife showing bare ankles to facebook? Hopefully the religious authorities in Afghanistan will be lenient with your extradited there for punishment... all in exchange for other countries extraditing I.P. violators to the USA.
Phrases such as "you live in.us" and "authorities in Afghanistan... you['re] extradited there" makes it pretty obvious he's talking about US citizens being extradited to other countries.
You probably shouldn't throw stones from a glass house
Irony;
You probably shouldn't say, "read his post," when you have failed to read and understand it yourself.
Well, the "shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say" about Obama and firearms is correct. Obama said he wants to "reintroduce the ban on assault rifles."
The same President Obama who refused to renew the Brady Bill, and allows citizens to carry in national parks. He's gonna 'take yer gunz away.'
Right.. and I just so happen to be the Lindbergh Baby.
What you've linked to there, aside from being an opinion piece completely devoid of any sort of citation that would back what the mouthpiece who wrote it claims, is an example of political posturing. Fun fact: Presidents do not have the power to create or enact legislation, only the option to sign or veto.
Besides, If you don't like assault rifles, what are you going to do about it, take it from me at knifepoint?
When did I say I didn't like assault rifles? Never. All I said was the "Dat N*gg35'z gonna take away owl ur GUNZ!" crowd are batshit crazy - this is a fact.
By all means, continue to believe such nonsense - my family owns a gun shop, and we're always happy to take your money!
You could always try explaining it, instead of being an uppity dick.
Of course, to do so would require you to actually know about orbital mechanics yourself, a caveat I had not considered up until now...
IMO, people who use phrases like "Well, that's just because you're ignorant of/don't understand X," without going on to show their own understanding of the subject, are full of it. Otherwise, they'd prove their own knowledge, wouldn't they?
I think the whole Megaupload thing should speak for itself
If Dotcom were an American citizen, extradited to another country, then yea, that'd be a great example. But he's not, so it's not.
vlm specifically implied that Americans are being extradited to other countries for doing things that aren't illegal in America - I contend that point, and the lack of supporting citation.
I think you're so entrenched in this "us vs them" partisan mess to see past the mistakes of your chosen sports team.
And I think you're reading too much into the specific words I wrote, and not enough into the context. Hint: It has far less to do with partisan politics than you think, and far more to do with shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say.
How about risk, as your rocket may fail to achieve orbit.
THAT is the legitimate problem I was looking for.
talk of "launching something into the sun" is made by people who don't understand orbital mechanics.
Which is probably a majority of the human population. No sense getting a big head about it if you do.
Most people don't understand how automatic transmissions work, either, but you don't see me rubbing it in.
But the truth is our "spent fuel" is actually usable fuel, a gold mine of energy that can release seven or more times that which we've extracted so far, and at the end would leave only isotopes with very short decay time. we should not dispose of it but burn it in modern reactor designs.
Fair enough; so long as there's some solution other than the current "let's bury it somewhere and hope for the best" strategy.
They'll just seize every car that tests positive to drug residue under civil forfeiture and sell the cars. Easy money.
I was going to make a snarky remark about how you seem to be under the impression that hippies actually own cars with more than scrap value, which leads me to assume you don't know any actual hippies.
Then I got to thinking about the types of people I remember seeing at the music festivals I used to go to - in addition to the hippies, you also get a large number of lawyers' kids and trust-fund babies (i.e., the 'idle rich), who have nothing better to do than spend mommy and daddy's money on dope.
Of course, according to the mass media, taxing the rich doesn't help the economy at all, so if you buy into such inane philosophies...
I wonder what it's like going thru life knowing a majority of the population who know you exist... hate your guts and would like to see you on fire.
If i were a religious sort..
If you were a religious sort, specifically of the fundi persuasion, you would probably take it as a sign from God that you're doing things right.
The Westboro Baptist Church, for example, maintains that because most Americans think the WBC is nothing but useless scum, they are therefore the "only true Christians," due to a passage in Luke (21:17) that reads, "You will be hated by all men for my name's sake."
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has been sentenced to three years in prison under Egypt's blasphemy law for posting the trailer for the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims.
There's an axiom that covers that:
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Not that I agree with being imprisoned for posting a video (much the opposite), just making an observation.
If you haven't checked out KSP yet, do it now. It is worth it.
Side note: I showed the demo to a middle school administrator at a yard sale I had a few months ago. She was so impressed, she decided to make the game part of the science curriculum.
Like I said, if you haven't checked it out, do it now. You will (probably) not go unimpressed.
That was the best part about safe search. "Sorry, we couldn't find what you were looking for. He's a hot chick's tits."
No wonder you couldn't find anything based on that query. Who searches for "He's a hot chick's tits" anyway? :-)
Thanks for the particularly disturbing mental imagery.
Asshole.
xD
Bullshit. You can still search for whatever you want, you just need to specify that yes you really do want THOSE kind of images.
Here's the inherent problem, in 2 parts:
A) What's the definition "THOSE kind of images?"
and
B) Who gets to do the defining?
If you think on it long enough, you'll realize why I'm right.
Which approach do you think would work best? Roll out a censorship system all at once, much to the protests of everyone, or a little at a time? This amounts to the second example.
Yup.
Frog. Pot. Slow Boil.
No. Censorship would be if they barred you from seeing it all together.
Incorrect; censorship is defined as "The practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts." (per Google).
What you're referring to is a mandatory boycott, which is a type of censorship, but not reflective of the overall meaning of the word.
Already exists:
http://support.google.com/images/answer/1325808/
Yea, from that:
A better reason to not utilize this "service" (read: moneygrab), I have not seen.
Your not fixing the engineering behind it, you replacing a defective part dummy!
A) Coding != Engineering. Otherwise CIS degrees would have an "E" in there somewhere. Not to mention, if patching defective code is not analogous to replacing defective car parts, I don't know what analogous is (Hint: I do).
B) Even if it coding did == engineering, that doesn't fix the logical flaw in OP's reasoning. Heck, if anything, it makes him seem that much more of an elitist prick, expecting everyone who owns a TV to understand how it's engineered.
3) As a professionally trained mechanic with 20 years experience, I can tell you with confidence that, a good 60-80% of the time, "replacing a defective part" on most modern (and many classic) automobiles entails a fair amount of engineering.
Just give me a basic 42-50 inch monitor with speakers, a few HDMI ports and an ATSC tuner.
This, this, this.
Hell, you can even keep the crappy speakers, I have surround sound.
just patch it yourself
all the smart TV's i've seen, the smart part of the TV runs open source software
All the cars I've seen, the car parts are "open source."
Just repair it yourself.
See the logical flaw in your reasoning yet?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/21/2117236/new-samsung-tv-watches-you-watching-it
It is against the law in the US to do that to a corporation.
Identify the statute, and someone will identify a workaround.
There's always a loophole.
In that case - I'm telling the phone company who cannot call me
Good luck with that - I work with telcos every day, and it is my experience that getting them to block a number for a customer is slightly more difficult than trying to perform dental surgery on a rabid Bengal tiger.
Seriously. Sometimes some of my clients will get harassing calls that tie up every single line in a 10-line PBX, and the only way to get the phone company to take any action whatsoever is to file a police report.
We shouldn't have to go to the cops to block some asshole from harassing us.
Inigo maybe?
You killed my father...
vlm specifically implied that Americans are being extradited to other countries for doing things that aren't illegal in America - I contend that point, and the lack of supporting citation.
No, read his post, he said doing things illegal in the US (as in, against the law in the US) while being in a foreign country.
That's a negatory, Ghostrider. vlm's post, verbatim:
Phrases such as "you live in .us" and "authorities in Afghanistan... you['re] extradited there" makes it pretty obvious he's talking about US citizens being extradited to other countries.
You probably shouldn't throw stones from a glass house
Irony; You probably shouldn't say, "read his post," when you have failed to read and understand it yourself.
Well, the "shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say" about Obama and firearms is correct. Obama said he wants to "reintroduce the ban on assault rifles."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/10/24/what-president-obama-says-hell-do-to-your-gun-rights/
The same President Obama who refused to renew the Brady Bill, and allows citizens to carry in national parks. He's gonna 'take yer gunz away.'
Right.. and I just so happen to be the Lindbergh Baby.
What you've linked to there, aside from being an opinion piece completely devoid of any sort of citation that would back what the mouthpiece who wrote it claims, is an example of political posturing. Fun fact: Presidents do not have the power to create or enact legislation, only the option to sign or veto.
Besides, If you don't like assault rifles, what are you going to do about it, take it from me at knifepoint?
When did I say I didn't like assault rifles? Never. All I said was the "Dat N*gg35'z gonna take away owl ur GUNZ!" crowd are batshit crazy - this is a fact.
By all means, continue to believe such nonsense - my family owns a gun shop, and we're always happy to take your money!
Play path of exile if you want a continuation of the awsome that was diablo 2.
Or Torchlight 2
Nethack FTW!
You could always try explaining it, instead of being an uppity dick.
Of course, to do so would require you to actually know about orbital mechanics yourself, a caveat I had not considered up until now...
IMO, people who use phrases like "Well, that's just because you're ignorant of/don't understand X," without going on to show their own understanding of the subject, are full of it. Otherwise, they'd prove their own knowledge, wouldn't they?
No, no, just throw them all in jail. It will free up a lot of jobs as well as creating a huge boost for the penal industry.
C'mon now, you know better than that - since when do hippies have jobs?
I think the whole Megaupload thing should speak for itself
If Dotcom were an American citizen, extradited to another country, then yea, that'd be a great example. But he's not, so it's not.
vlm specifically implied that Americans are being extradited to other countries for doing things that aren't illegal in America - I contend that point, and the lack of supporting citation.
I think you're so entrenched in this "us vs them" partisan mess to see past the mistakes of your chosen sports team.
And I think you're reading too much into the specific words I wrote, and not enough into the context. Hint: It has far less to do with partisan politics than you think, and far more to do with shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say.
How about risk, as your rocket may fail to achieve orbit.
THAT is the legitimate problem I was looking for.
talk of "launching something into the sun" is made by people who don't understand orbital mechanics.
Which is probably a majority of the human population. No sense getting a big head about it if you do.
Most people don't understand how automatic transmissions work, either, but you don't see me rubbing it in.
But the truth is our "spent fuel" is actually usable fuel, a gold mine of energy that can release seven or more times that which we've extracted so far, and at the end would leave only isotopes with very short decay time. we should not dispose of it but burn it in modern reactor designs.
Fair enough; so long as there's some solution other than the current "let's bury it somewhere and hope for the best" strategy.
They'll just seize every car that tests positive to drug residue under civil forfeiture and sell the cars. Easy money.
I was going to make a snarky remark about how you seem to be under the impression that hippies actually own cars with more than scrap value, which leads me to assume you don't know any actual hippies.
Then I got to thinking about the types of people I remember seeing at the music festivals I used to go to - in addition to the hippies, you also get a large number of lawyers' kids and trust-fund babies (i.e., the 'idle rich), who have nothing better to do than spend mommy and daddy's money on dope.
Of course, according to the mass media, taxing the rich doesn't help the economy at all, so if you buy into such inane philosophies...
Who cares about that? Where is the moon getting it's power from?!?!
Secret Nazi bases, duh.
But then it’s subject to orbital decay. And if I learned one thing from ST:TOS, without power things in orbit deorbit fast.
A) I was just using that as an arbitrary delineation for space.
B) Good point; I mean, where the hell would an orbiting nuclear power plant get power from?
I wonder what it's like going thru life knowing a majority of the population who know you exist... hate your guts and would like to see you on fire.
If i were a religious sort..
If you were a religious sort, specifically of the fundi persuasion, you would probably take it as a sign from God that you're doing things right.
The Westboro Baptist Church, for example, maintains that because most Americans think the WBC is nothing but useless scum, they are therefore the "only true Christians," due to a passage in Luke (21:17) that reads, "You will be hated by all men for my name's sake."
I shit you not.
Install in a truck, visit all the music festivals, and the economic crisis is over.
Methinks thou hast put a bit much faith in the fiscal acuity of the common homo hackysackius, i.e. your average music fest goer.