Your explanation makes the whole "9th planet theory" seems increasingly less plausible. If they are postulating a planet because a few cherry picked examples happened to be orbiting the sun on the same side of the solar system then they are fools. Anyone can cherry pick 8 objects which indicate something when taken in isolation of everything else in the solar system.
So.. the orbits of several comets were disturbed by something large moving through our solar system at some point in the past. While I grant that a large planet is the most mundane explanation.. this could also be caused by either a rogue planet falling into our sun, or.. dare I say.. a very large alien craft moving though our system at some point in the past.
This is a red herring. If everything you bought was open source, would that INCREASE or DECREASE you level of security? The EULAs I agree to every day are open source, but do I bother reading them? Even if the code was available for every little thing you used, you would still be relying on trust.. or else you would be spending all day fiddling with every little thing.
Phone home functionality can be hidden in the hardware, on a remote server, in a text file, or literally anywhere. The only way to control all your electronics is to make them all yourself, and anyone who even tries doing that is basically living in the stone age.
Your math is wrong. You're losing 80% of the velocity but gaining mass. I didn't see any indication of how much mass, but any increase in the amount of mass will increase the Jules of energy transferred into the target.
I think humans have proven to be amazingly excellent drivers in general. Every time I have occasion to visit a wall-mart parking lot I look at the people and think "Man! Kudos to that freak of nature for getting all the way from their house to the parking lot without swerving off the road!"
When I think of how the average person manages to make hundreds of trips in a row without a collision despite the fact that we have evolved zero traits to support safe driving I get all teary with pride. 200 years ago there was no need for anyone to learn to drive, and yet today the vast majority of the population manages to do it with over 99% success rate. If I was an alien from another planet and I was reading statistics on how the human population behaved I would assume that we couldn't possibly be as good of drivers as we are.
Yeah, the old "we don't use money because we have technology that gives us basic resources on request. Ohh.. but we do employ an 'advanced system of bartering' if you want anything exotic or that anyone else hasn't chosen to provide for free. Also, power is not free, the plants have to be purchased.. unless you happen to be aboard a military vessel or in an advanced area that has a program to give that stuff away.. but the whole economy has to be propped up by a much larger network of money using sub-societies that can feed resources into the non-money using portion."
I always took the lack of money thing to mean that the show was following a military vessel, and that the "star fleet" military had a rule against it's members using money. I know that is not exactly what they claimed was happening, but all their actions seemed to indicate that if you weren't in star fleet then you had and used money. I seem to remember a science outpost that talked about not having enough funding to buy all the equipment they wanted.
Consider: 1) This is not a public school, which means that the student is there by choice. 2) There are other private schools (I know of a few on the west coast) that could actually provide a wi-fi free environment with little trouble. 3) Moving is easier than a lawsuit.
From these datum I conclude that the lawsuit has a purpose quite apart from it's stated one. My conjecture is that the child has gotten into some form of trouble, and the school was on the verge of suspending or expelling the child. This lawsuit might well be a ploy to make it effectively impossible for the school to expel the child, since any such action now could easily be construed as discrimination.
When I assume that then this whole thing makes a lot more sense.
Oh no! Some moron from the internet called me an idiot! I'm doomed!
Jobs kicked Apple into shape so thoroughly his second time around that they are just running on momentum now, and will be for a few more years to come. It takes your normal large company 5 or 6 years to fail after it's driving force is removed, and Jobs left apple with no debt and a ridiculous amount of cash in the bank, so I'm predicting something like 10 years of coasting and flailing about weakly before Apple feels any pressure to do anything.
Nothing Apple has done since Job's death has done anything to turn around the company's fortune.
Roots? Apple nearly went bankrupt for the few years that Jobs wasn't there. I'm sorry to tell you this, buddy, but unfocused and useless *is* Apple's roots.
Someone needs to be empowered to kick the company into shape, and unfortunately the hiring process for C level positions specifically excludes anyone with a personality capable of doing that.
Worrying about the amount of waste in the conversion is ridiculous when you compare it to the amount of waste you incur when you try to buy off brand DC items.
I pay the electric company 8% extra to get the power from renewable sources/burning trash. Problem solved, no off brand anything.
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It was probably from some other even more scammy scammer that was just using the Equifax letterhead and hoping to prey on suckers.
I'll tell you the last thing these corporate jackoffs need is a fat tax cut.
The last thing they need? As in they'll get the tax cut for dessert at the end of the meal?
Especially the government sponsored malware.
Your explanation makes the whole "9th planet theory" seems increasingly less plausible. If they are postulating a planet because a few cherry picked examples happened to be orbiting the sun on the same side of the solar system then they are fools. Anyone can cherry pick 8 objects which indicate something when taken in isolation of everything else in the solar system.
So.. the orbits of several comets were disturbed by something large moving through our solar system at some point in the past. While I grant that a large planet is the most mundane explanation.. this could also be caused by either a rogue planet falling into our sun, or.. dare I say.. a very large alien craft moving though our system at some point in the past.
This is the closest thing I could find on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Steam thief: yet another phrase that meant something completely different 100 years ago.
It sounds like you haven't updated your statistics since the 1990s
I second that. More FUDGE please.
This is a red herring. If everything you bought was open source, would that INCREASE or DECREASE you level of security? The EULAs I agree to every day are open source, but do I bother reading them? Even if the code was available for every little thing you used, you would still be relying on trust.. or else you would be spending all day fiddling with every little thing.
Phone home functionality can be hidden in the hardware, on a remote server, in a text file, or literally anywhere. The only way to control all your electronics is to make them all yourself, and anyone who even tries doing that is basically living in the stone age.
I think the NSA has already proved you wrong about that on several occasions.
Lol, bold words.. for an anonymous coward.
All kinds of people love to steal your phone data.. but who watches the watchers?
Maybe it's this app.
Your math is wrong. You're losing 80% of the velocity but gaining mass. I didn't see any indication of how much mass, but any increase in the amount of mass will increase the Jules of energy transferred into the target.
Some day you, too will join the dark side.
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Outlaw?
Yes, by that logic I do prefer to buy manual transmissions.. but who said anything about outlawing anything?
I think humans have proven to be amazingly excellent drivers in general. Every time I have occasion to visit a wall-mart parking lot I look at the people and think "Man! Kudos to that freak of nature for getting all the way from their house to the parking lot without swerving off the road!"
When I think of how the average person manages to make hundreds of trips in a row without a collision despite the fact that we have evolved zero traits to support safe driving I get all teary with pride. 200 years ago there was no need for anyone to learn to drive, and yet today the vast majority of the population manages to do it with over 99% success rate. If I was an alien from another planet and I was reading statistics on how the human population behaved I would assume that we couldn't possibly be as good of drivers as we are.
Yeah, the old "we don't use money because we have technology that gives us basic resources on request. Ohh.. but we do employ an 'advanced system of bartering' if you want anything exotic or that anyone else hasn't chosen to provide for free. Also, power is not free, the plants have to be purchased.. unless you happen to be aboard a military vessel or in an advanced area that has a program to give that stuff away.. but the whole economy has to be propped up by a much larger network of money using sub-societies that can feed resources into the non-money using portion."
So, in conclusion: Star Fleet = Burning Man.
I always took the lack of money thing to mean that the show was following a military vessel, and that the "star fleet" military had a rule against it's members using money. I know that is not exactly what they claimed was happening, but all their actions seemed to indicate that if you weren't in star fleet then you had and used money. I seem to remember a science outpost that talked about not having enough funding to buy all the equipment they wanted.
DS9 talked about money all the time.
More like "persistent streams of junk articles try to impersonate real news."
I suspect there is actually more to this story.
Consider: 1) This is not a public school, which means that the student is there by choice. 2) There are other private schools (I know of a few on the west coast) that could actually provide a wi-fi free environment with little trouble. 3) Moving is easier than a lawsuit.
From these datum I conclude that the lawsuit has a purpose quite apart from it's stated one. My conjecture is that the child has gotten into some form of trouble, and the school was on the verge of suspending or expelling the child. This lawsuit might well be a ploy to make it effectively impossible for the school to expel the child, since any such action now could easily be construed as discrimination.
When I assume that then this whole thing makes a lot more sense.
Oh no! Some moron from the internet called me an idiot! I'm doomed!
Jobs kicked Apple into shape so thoroughly his second time around that they are just running on momentum now, and will be for a few more years to come. It takes your normal large company 5 or 6 years to fail after it's driving force is removed, and Jobs left apple with no debt and a ridiculous amount of cash in the bank, so I'm predicting something like 10 years of coasting and flailing about weakly before Apple feels any pressure to do anything.
Nothing Apple has done since Job's death has done anything to turn around the company's fortune.
Roots? Apple nearly went bankrupt for the few years that Jobs wasn't there. I'm sorry to tell you this, buddy, but unfocused and useless *is* Apple's roots.
Someone needs to be empowered to kick the company into shape, and unfortunately the hiring process for C level positions specifically excludes anyone with a personality capable of doing that.
If this facility is so high security then why is there an article with so much detail written about it? It seems that would defeat the point.
Exactly.
Worrying about the amount of waste in the conversion is ridiculous when you compare it to the amount of waste you incur when you try to buy off brand DC items.
I pay the electric company 8% extra to get the power from renewable sources/burning trash. Problem solved, no off brand anything.