At a nuclear plant near me (~100km) inspectors found empty beer bottles and a hash pipe... The joke of the day was Homer was the safety manager for the plant... Entertainment and Real Life have a symbiotic relationship... Simpsons didn't invent incompetent workmanship, they poke fun at it. If there were no lazy blue collar workers, no sex-addicted politicians, no drunk teachers and no stoned bus drivers, people wouldnt get the joke.
uhm,.. you do realize it isn't homer who is pulling these episodes right? its a few television networks that air reruns in europe.. if they wanna pretend that homer never prevented deadly gas escaping with his fat ass, they can go ahead... we all know it still happened, and we will never forget his courage in preventing the meltdown with his eeenie meenie miney moe.
I think you missed my point, contrary to what you believe, everyone gets to have an opinion. Personally, I am a proponent of nuclear power and am happy to be in a location where my government is still pushing forward with new nuclear generation. As much as I dislike opponents of what I believe, I still think they deserve to be as loud as they want on the issue... Sometimes my side wins, sometimes their side wins, without that push-back democracy doesnt exist.. So YOU can tell them to STFU, and I can tell them to STFU but the government and regulator commisions exist to listen to them... by the people, for the people... not buy the people, by 4 people.
Everyone flipping out about not wanting to use a roll-up laptop... which is fine, but I think the idea here is to just showcase one small application for roll-up/out technology.. I can think of many places a roll-out screen would be handy... A roll-out GPS map in a car, a roll-out screen for consuming content on the road, like in an RV. Large roll-out displays for use in aerospace, either on a space station where size and weight are key, to on a passenger plane for larger personal video screens.. Personally I want a roll-up screen as blinds on the windows in my house... Sure, I don't want the cartoon-animated one showcased here, partly because it doesnt seem practical, and partly becuase I don't live in toon-town... I prefer my computers to exist before I use them.
And more importantly because politicians lack the balls to tell you morons to STFU?
Yeah, stupid morons using their votes to control government. The politicians should definately tell them to STFU, nothing gets in the way of a good democracy like voters always yappin'
but that 'contract' the end user agrees to does not trump law. so there may be valid loop-holes and precedents. im not a lawyer or a criminal, so I havent got any references,
if i had mod points they would be all yours... How complicated can it be to buy a laptop? I think this entire excersise is basically a fanboi finding a creative way to say "Macs are easy, PC's are confusing". Granted its been a few years since I replaced my laptop, but its always been as simple as... this looks nice, hey it fits my budget, the specs seem decent.. ring it up.
Police actions are a matter of public record. They announce RIDE (roadside checks) on the radio around here all the time. Perhaps if a driver knew he would be checked he wouldnt drive... and isnt that the end game? or is the end game to nail as many as possible to reap cash rewards in the form of fines.. I don't drive drunk, and I don't condone it. With the way the laws are going here (in Ontario), 1 beer is enough to ruin your life. So I stay where I am not matter what. I see nothing wrong with this app, as all it would tell me is "the cops are going to pull you over and waste you time, even tho you havent broken any law, and they have no probable cause, but expect to get harassed anyway... take a different route"..
Why don't they better train the agents taking the calls.. this reads to me like a scene in Idiocracy where the guy goes to the hospital and the triage nurse has a big panel with icons representing different ailments.. Maybe if the agent knew that 'gun-shots+big pools of blood' > 'I didnt get my chicken nuggets' they wouldnt have this problem.
You make it sound like it was the same issue affecting both.. How do you know that? Sure the same result, nose cone didn't seperate. The question is WHY. Did launch vibration cause a failure of the electronics? Was there a defective part or parts? Was it the same root cause for both?
He is a car analogy.. I had a power steering failure, I was losing fluid which in turn was making my pump whine. I had a look, saw the rack seal was leaking, I replaced the rack, replaced the hydraulic fluid, and bled the system. Three weeks later, the leak and noise were back. This time it was a high pressure hose fitting that had snapped. Two seperate events, causing the same failure, but with two different root causes... It wouldn't make sense for me to re-invent the entire hydraulic system design every time I had a power steering failure... You identify the problem, correct it, add a preventative measure to keep it from recurring and try again.
If it is the same root problem I would agree that its a stupid mistake... but for all we know the first was because the fairing was damaged and jammed, and this time was because the bolts were defective...
what company wouldn't want to insure a giant metal can full of rocket fuel with a multi-million dollar, fragile device on the end. I bet that little Gecko would all over it..
So easy, a rocket scientist can do it..... sometimes....
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how about the farmer that won an award for being Outstanding in his Field?
At a nuclear plant near me (~100km) inspectors found empty beer bottles and a hash pipe... The joke of the day was Homer was the safety manager for the plant... Entertainment and Real Life have a symbiotic relationship... Simpsons didn't invent incompetent workmanship, they poke fun at it. If there were no lazy blue collar workers, no sex-addicted politicians, no drunk teachers and no stoned bus drivers, people wouldnt get the joke.
Becuase at the start he throws the nuclear fuel rod in to the street
uhm,.. you do realize it isn't homer who is pulling these episodes right? its a few television networks that air reruns in europe.. if they wanna pretend that homer never prevented deadly gas escaping with his fat ass, they can go ahead... we all know it still happened, and we will never forget his courage in preventing the meltdown with his eeenie meenie miney moe.
maybe the location of Spingfield is the fucachima prefecture!
Illogical, yes... but, if you look around, the public at large is neither logical or rational..
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Probably the one where Homer goes to college and makes fun of ners
I think you missed my point, contrary to what you believe, everyone gets to have an opinion. Personally, I am a proponent of nuclear power and am happy to be in a location where my government is still pushing forward with new nuclear generation. As much as I dislike opponents of what I believe, I still think they deserve to be as loud as they want on the issue... Sometimes my side wins, sometimes their side wins, without that push-back democracy doesnt exist.. So YOU can tell them to STFU, and I can tell them to STFU but the government and regulator commisions exist to listen to them... by the people, for the people... not buy the people, by 4 people.
Everyone flipping out about not wanting to use a roll-up laptop... which is fine, but I think the idea here is to just showcase one small application for roll-up/out technology.. I can think of many places a roll-out screen would be handy... A roll-out GPS map in a car, a roll-out screen for consuming content on the road, like in an RV. Large roll-out displays for use in aerospace, either on a space station where size and weight are key, to on a passenger plane for larger personal video screens.. Personally I want a roll-up screen as blinds on the windows in my house... Sure, I don't want the cartoon-animated one showcased here, partly because it doesnt seem practical, and partly becuase I don't live in toon-town... I prefer my computers to exist before I use them.
And more importantly because politicians lack the balls to tell you morons to STFU?
Yeah, stupid morons using their votes to control government. The politicians should definately tell them to STFU, nothing gets in the way of a good democracy like voters always yappin'
but that 'contract' the end user agrees to does not trump law. so there may be valid loop-holes and precedents. im not a lawyer or a criminal, so I havent got any references,
if i had mod points they would be all yours... How complicated can it be to buy a laptop? I think this entire excersise is basically a fanboi finding a creative way to say "Macs are easy, PC's are confusing". Granted its been a few years since I replaced my laptop, but its always been as simple as... this looks nice, hey it fits my budget, the specs seem decent.. ring it up.
You do know its counter productive to answer sarcastic questions with another sarcastic question right?
Police actions are a matter of public record. They announce RIDE (roadside checks) on the radio around here all the time. Perhaps if a driver knew he would be checked he wouldnt drive... and isnt that the end game? or is the end game to nail as many as possible to reap cash rewards in the form of fines.. I don't drive drunk, and I don't condone it. With the way the laws are going here (in Ontario), 1 beer is enough to ruin your life. So I stay where I am not matter what. I see nothing wrong with this app, as all it would tell me is "the cops are going to pull you over and waste you time, even tho you havent broken any law, and they have no probable cause, but expect to get harassed anyway... take a different route"..
Do not use any computer, AC or DC in the bath.
Why don't they better train the agents taking the calls.. this reads to me like a scene in Idiocracy where the guy goes to the hospital and the triage nurse has a big panel with icons representing different ailments.. Maybe if the agent knew that 'gun-shots+big pools of blood' > 'I didnt get my chicken nuggets' they wouldnt have this problem.
did you also use armorall wipes on your ass? i use the defogger setting on my climate controls to clear fog on the inside of my windshield
Considering what I pay to insure my truck... I wouldn't want to pay that premium... I wonder if they get first-accident-forgiveness
You make it sound like it was the same issue affecting both.. How do you know that? Sure the same result, nose cone didn't seperate. The question is WHY. Did launch vibration cause a failure of the electronics? Was there a defective part or parts? Was it the same root cause for both?
He is a car analogy.. I had a power steering failure, I was losing fluid which in turn was making my pump whine. I had a look, saw the rack seal was leaking, I replaced the rack, replaced the hydraulic fluid, and bled the system. Three weeks later, the leak and noise were back. This time it was a high pressure hose fitting that had snapped. Two seperate events, causing the same failure, but with two different root causes... It wouldn't make sense for me to re-invent the entire hydraulic system design every time I had a power steering failure... You identify the problem, correct it, add a preventative measure to keep it from recurring and try again.
If it is the same root problem I would agree that its a stupid mistake... but for all we know the first was because the fairing was damaged and jammed, and this time was because the bolts were defective...
what company wouldn't want to insure a giant metal can full of rocket fuel with a multi-million dollar, fragile device on the end. I bet that little Gecko would all over it..
So easy, a rocket scientist can do it..... sometimes....
I think you are on to something, it worked for Mork