I believe everyone is talking about the game where you try to put a 40 mm ball into a small hole couple of hundred meters away by hitting the ball with a club.
Bosnia - Bombed the wrong targets, did not put in enough ground troops, generally let the Serbs do what they wanted... Correction. Too much, too late.
NATO bombings in Bosnia were precision strikes to take out communication. NATO forces that came into Bosnia after that were just peace keeping forces that just sat there and basically did nothing.
The fun part... NATO bombings came when the Bosnian side finally made some headway cause it was finally allowed to buy guns too. So, when NATO "stopped the war" after years of just twiddling their thumbs while Serbian/Yugoslav forces shelled civilians - Bosnian side was months away from wining the war. Nice one.
Kinda like the teacher standing aside, letting the little kid being beaten and bullied, but when the kid finally resists and punches the bully in the face - teacher comes and separates them and starts preaching them how they should be friends instead.
Now Bosnia has the most ridiculous excuse for a government based on that rushed piece, war criminals are still on the run, and many people still don't know what happened to their family members and where their bodies lie. Meanwhile, war criminals are being praised as heroes in one town and cursed for what they are 10 miles down the road. People who fought in the war (almost everyone) still feel unsafe going to "their side" and kids are being taught one of the three histories - depending on their ethnicity.
Nobody won, everyone lost, a country hammered to pieces left in the hands of the people being told that if they only wished it - it could be whole again. The thing is - nobody wants it to be whole but they all pretend that they do.
It is a little known fact that he made both iPod and iPhone from an old Newton in a cave in Afghanistan using only rocks and guano for tools.
OSX? "Hello World" and a lot of spit.
MacBook Air? An abacus, some duct-tape, half a paper-clip and a tablespoon of sand.
That show MacGyver? It was originally supposed to be called "That Mac Guy: The Steve Jobs Chronicles". Steve asked them to change that, because he is so modest, and he didn't want all other guys in the IT industry to implode out of jealousy. Ain't he just great?
Does your company fall under doctor-patient confidentiality or would I or a police officer or just anyone off the street who is willing to ask - be able to get the information?
I am guessing that your company does not have any such system of protecting your clients privacy and information. Doctors on the other hand...
There is this scene where Gus Grissom (played by Fred Ward) is drinking in the bar and is trying to woo a certain waitress who is playing "not very impressed with just another astronaut". So he shows her a pocket model of Apollo capsule and asks her if she's got one of those. She answers - sure, they are about a dollar at every thrift store. Gus answers "Yes, but did you ever have one that went up there?", at which she distinctly changes her posture about him being "just another astronaut".
There it is my fellow slashdotian. Taking small things into orbit gets you laid.
The satellite must be a single object; for example, a cloud of un-connected co-orbiting particles does not count.
Get 10-20 grams of very thin tin-foil instead. The kind used for hats is probably too thick.
"Track" it using telescopes from earth. Get your amateur astronomers friends from around the world to help out by donating the time and eye-labor.
16. Orbital Monitoring All entrants must be able to provide evidence that their satellite has completed a minimum of 9 orbits of the Earth. The costs of providing this evidence must be borne by the entrant, but do not form part of the £999.99 budget, except for the costs of any equipment (transmitters, reflectors etc) mounted on the launch vehicle (including satellite) to enable detection. For example, the cost of a radio transmitter on the satellite will be considered part of the budget, but the cost of ground- based equipment to detect and monitor transmissions from the satellite will not be considered part of the budget. (However, if the same equipment is used to control some aspects of the launch, then this will be considered part of the launch equipment and hence may fall under the budget). All entrants must explain before launch how they will provide proof of orbits, and must agree with the organisers that this proof will be acceptable. There is no need to observe or track the satellite throughout its orbit, as long as sufficient data is collected to confirm that 9 orbits have taken place. Entrants are welcome to recruit third parties to assist with orbital verification. The organisers must be satisfied that the collection of proof-of-orbit data is reliable, unambiguous and (if judged necessary) validated by disinterested parties. Note also that proof may be required that a detected signal originates from the satellite itself. The acceptability or otherwise of proof of orbit will be decided by the organisers. Contact the organisers at info@n-prize.com
12. Budget The budget for each launch is £999.99, and all costs are entirely the responsibility of the entrant. The budget must cover the following: a. The launch vehicle, including the satellite itself, and any fuel, gases or other materials which it carries; in other words, anything which leaves the ground. b. Any items of the launch equipment could not be re-used for a second identical launch (for example, gun-type propellants, or railgun rails which are rendered unusable in the course of the launch). c. The cost that would be incurred for refurbishing, refilling, re-testing or otherwise preparing any launch equipment or any aspect of the launch site, if a second identical mission were to be carried out. d. Any manufacturing costs for any parts of the launch vehicle or for any parts of the launch equipment that would require replacement in order for a second identical mission to be carried out (for example, such costs would include the custom machining of a piece of metal forming part of the launch vehicle, if this is contracted out). As a rule of thumb, the budget of £999.99 should enable you to conduct a repeat of a successful mission. However, all entrants are advised to contact the organisers to confirm that their calculation of expenditure is acceptable. Items which need not be covered by the budget include prototyping costs; launch equipment or the launch site (except for costs which would be incurred for a repeat mission, as stated above); licence fees, permissions etc; charges made for attendance by safety personnel (provided that such personnel play no direct role in the mission); legal costs; medical costs; insurance costs; fines, penalties or loss of earnings arising from any cause whether prior to, during or after the miss
You are aware that the goal is to launch a "satellite" the weight of a 9 millimeter bullet? (Intriguing - isn't it? Another 9.)
And where does it say that you need to guide it anywhere? It just needs to go around the Earth 9 times. Calculate it right so it stays up for 9 orbits or more.
Now... anyone have the numbers on costs of launching a weather balloon per pound of gram of weight? Seems to me, that if all you need to get up there is 10 grams of cargo, you might send the launch platform couple of kilometers closer to the target first relatively cheap. Also, climb a chair (or a mountain) before the launch. Every little bit helps to save on the fuel/weight ratio.
The full, official name pound sterling (plural: pounds sterling) is used mainly in formal contexts and also when it is necessary to distinguish the currency used within the United Kingdom from others that have the same name. Otherwise the term pound is normally used. The currency name is sometimes abbreviated to just "sterling", particularly in the wholesale financial markets, but not in amounts; so "payment accepted in sterling" but never "that costs five sterling". The abbreviations "ster." or "stg." are sometimes used. The term British pound is commonly used in less formal contexts, although it is not an official name of the currency. A common slang term is quid (plural quid).
The term sterling is derived from the fact that, about the year of 775, silver coins known as "sterlings" were issued in the Saxon kingdoms,[6][dubious - discuss] 240 of them being minted from a pound of silver, the weight of which was probably about equal to the later troy pound. Because of this, large payments came to be reckoned in "pounds of sterlings", a phrase that was later shortened to "pounds sterling". After the Norman Conquest, the pound was divided for simplicity of accounting into 20 shillings and into 240 pennies, or pence. For a discussion of the etymology of "sterling" see Sterling silver.
The currency sign is the pound sign, originally with two cross-bars, then later more commonly £ with a single cross-bar. The pound sign derives from the blackletter "L", from the abbreviation[citation needed] LSD - librae, solidi, denarii - used for the pounds, shillings and pence of the original duodecimal currency system. Libra was the basic Roman unit of weight, derived from the Latin word for scales or balance. The ISO 4217 currency code is GBP (Great Britain pound). Occasionally, the abbreviation UKP is used but this is incorrect. The Crown dependencies use their own (non-ISO) codes: GGP (Guernsey pound), JEP (Jersey pound) and IMP (Isle of Man pound). Stocks are often traded in pence, so traders may refer to pence sterling, GBX (sometimes GBp), when listing stock prices.
Hey... at least it will be off the street for a while. Just imagine all the atmosphere you could save by also slashing his tires? Breaking windows and windshield? Or by cutting his breaks?
Ah... screw all that. Just wait for him to show up and club him to death.
Now... A wooden bat or one made out of aluminum? Which one is more environment friendly? Yes. A tree did die to make that wooden bat, but it takes a shitload of power to make that aluminum bat. Ah fuck it. Just get a large rock and crack his skull with it. Rocks are environment friendly.
Generally, to supply enough oxygen for respiration, a spacesuit using pure oxygen must have a pressure of about 4.7 psi (32.4 kPa), equal to the 3 psi (20.7 kPa) partial pressure of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, plus 40 torr (5.3 kPa) CO2 and 47 torr (6.3 kPa) water vapor pressure, both of which must be subtracted from the alveolar pressure to get alveolar oxygen partial pressure in 100% oxygen atmospheres, by the alveolar gas equation.[1] The latter two figures add to 87 torr (11.6 kPa, 1.7 psi), which is why many modern spacesuits do not use 3 psi, but 4.7 psi (this is a slight overcorrection, as alveolar partial pressures at sea level are not a full 3 psi, but a bit less). In spacesuits that use 3 psi, the astronaut gets only 3 - 1.7 = 1.3 psi (9 kPa) of oxygen, which is about the alveolar oxygen partial pressure attained at an altitude of 6100 ft (1860 m) above sea level. This is about 78% of normal sea level pressure, about the same as pressure in a commercial passenger jet aircraft, and is the realistic lower limit for safe ordinary space suit pressurization which allows reasonable work capacity. Close... but no cigar.
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And you thought you had it hard back in high school.
You insensitive clods!
I believe everyone is talking about the game where you try to put a 40 mm ball into a small hole couple of hundred meters away by hitting the ball with a club.
Not the Volkswagen line of cars.
Too much, too late.
NATO bombings in Bosnia were precision strikes to take out communication.
NATO forces that came into Bosnia after that were just peace keeping forces that just sat there and basically did nothing.
The fun part... NATO bombings came when the Bosnian side finally made some headway cause it was finally allowed to buy guns too.
So, when NATO "stopped the war" after years of just twiddling their thumbs while Serbian/Yugoslav forces shelled civilians - Bosnian side was months away from wining the war.
Nice one.
Kinda like the teacher standing aside, letting the little kid being beaten and bullied, but when the kid finally resists and punches the bully in the face - teacher comes and separates them and starts preaching them how they should be friends instead.
Now Bosnia has the most ridiculous excuse for a government based on that rushed piece, war criminals are still on the run, and many people still don't know what happened to their family members and where their bodies lie.
Meanwhile, war criminals are being praised as heroes in one town and cursed for what they are 10 miles down the road.
People who fought in the war (almost everyone) still feel unsafe going to "their side" and kids are being taught one of the three histories - depending on their ethnicity.
Nobody won, everyone lost, a country hammered to pieces left in the hands of the people being told that if they only wished it - it could be whole again.
The thing is - nobody wants it to be whole but they all pretend that they do.
Is that another name for a reacharound?
It is a little known fact that he made both iPod and iPhone from an old Newton in a cave in Afghanistan using only rocks and guano for tools.
OSX?
"Hello World" and a lot of spit.
MacBook Air?
An abacus, some duct-tape, half a paper-clip and a tablespoon of sand.
That show MacGyver?
It was originally supposed to be called "That Mac Guy: The Steve Jobs Chronicles".
Steve asked them to change that, because he is so modest, and he didn't want all other guys in the IT industry to implode out of jealousy.
Ain't he just great?
What was that?
I didn't hear you over the voices of about 20000 George Washingtons singing "Money makes the world go around".
Does your company fall under doctor-patient confidentiality or would I or a police officer or just anyone off the street who is willing to ask - be able to get the information?
I am guessing that your company does not have any such system of protecting your clients privacy and information.
Doctors on the other hand...
Get a baseball into orbit and we'll talk.
Ever seen The Right Stuff (1983)?
There is this scene where Gus Grissom (played by Fred Ward) is drinking in the bar and is trying to woo a certain waitress who is playing "not very impressed with just another astronaut".
So he shows her a pocket model of Apollo capsule and asks her if she's got one of those.
She answers - sure, they are about a dollar at every thrift store.
Gus answers "Yes, but did you ever have one that went up there?", at which she distinctly changes her posture about him being "just another astronaut".
There it is my fellow slashdotian.
Taking small things into orbit gets you laid.
Ask these guys and their friends for help - it IS allowed by the rules.
The satellite must be a single object; for example, a cloud of un-connected co-orbiting particles does not count.
Get 10-20 grams of very thin tin-foil instead. The kind used for hats is probably too thick.
"Track" it using telescopes from earth.
Get your amateur astronomers friends from around the world to help out by donating the time and eye-labor.
16. Orbital Monitoring All entrants must be able to provide evidence that their satellite has completed a minimum of 9
orbits of the Earth. The costs of providing this evidence must be borne by the entrant, but do not
form part of the £999.99 budget, except for the costs of any equipment (transmitters, reflectors
etc) mounted on the launch vehicle (including satellite) to enable detection. For example, the cost
of a radio transmitter on the satellite will be considered part of the budget, but the cost of ground-
based equipment to detect and monitor transmissions from the satellite will not be considered
part of the budget. (However, if the same equipment is used to control some aspects of the
launch, then this will be considered part of the launch equipment and hence may fall under the
budget). All entrants must explain before launch how they will provide proof of orbits, and must
agree with the organisers that this proof will be acceptable. There is no need to observe or track
the satellite throughout its orbit, as long as sufficient data is collected to confirm that 9 orbits have
taken place. Entrants are welcome to recruit third parties to assist with orbital verification. The
organisers must be satisfied that the collection of proof-of-orbit data is reliable, unambiguous and
(if judged necessary) validated by disinterested parties. Note also that proof may be required that
a detected signal originates from the satellite itself. The acceptability or otherwise of proof of orbit
will be decided by the organisers.
Contact the organisers at info@n-prize.com
Also, sections 12-14 are rather interesting money-vise:
http://www.n-prize.com/assets/rules_in_full.pdf
12. Budget The budget for each launch is £999.99, and all costs are entirely the responsibility of the entrant.
The budget must cover the following:
a. The launch vehicle, including the satellite itself, and any fuel, gases or other materials
which it carries; in other words, anything which leaves the ground.
b. Any items of the launch equipment could not be re-used for a second identical launch
(for example, gun-type propellants, or railgun rails which are rendered unusable in the
course of the launch).
c. The cost that would be incurred for refurbishing, refilling, re-testing or otherwise
preparing any launch equipment or any aspect of the launch site, if a second identical
mission were to be carried out.
d. Any manufacturing costs for any parts of the launch vehicle or for any parts of the
launch equipment that would require replacement in order for a second identical
mission to be carried out (for example, such costs would include the custom
machining of a piece of metal forming part of the launch vehicle, if this is contracted
out).
As a rule of thumb, the budget of £999.99 should enable you to conduct a repeat of a successful
mission. However, all entrants are advised to contact the organisers to confirm that their
calculation of expenditure is acceptable.
Items which need not be covered by the budget include prototyping costs; launch equipment or
the launch site (except for costs which would be incurred for a repeat mission, as stated above);
licence fees, permissions etc; charges made for attendance by safety personnel (provided that
such personnel play no direct role in the mission); legal costs; medical costs; insurance costs;
fines, penalties or loss of earnings arising from any cause whether prior to, during or after the
miss
You are aware that the goal is to launch a "satellite" the weight of a 9 millimeter bullet? (Intriguing - isn't it? Another 9.)
And where does it say that you need to guide it anywhere?
It just needs to go around the Earth 9 times.
Calculate it right so it stays up for 9 orbits or more.
Now... anyone have the numbers on costs of launching a weather balloon per pound of gram of weight?
Seems to me, that if all you need to get up there is 10 grams of cargo, you might send the launch platform couple of kilometers closer to the target first relatively cheap.
Also, climb a chair (or a mountain) before the launch. Every little bit helps to save on the fuel/weight ratio.
Sterling, naturally.
The full, official name pound sterling (plural: pounds sterling) is used mainly in formal contexts and also when it is necessary to distinguish the currency used within the United Kingdom from others that have the same name. Otherwise the term pound is normally used. The currency name is sometimes abbreviated to just "sterling", particularly in the wholesale financial markets, but not in amounts; so "payment accepted in sterling" but never "that costs five sterling". The abbreviations "ster." or "stg." are sometimes used. The term British pound is commonly used in less formal contexts, although it is not an official name of the currency. A common slang term is quid (plural quid).
The term sterling is derived from the fact that, about the year of 775, silver coins known as "sterlings" were issued in the Saxon kingdoms,[6][dubious - discuss] 240 of them being minted from a pound of silver, the weight of which was probably about equal to the later troy pound. Because of this, large payments came to be reckoned in "pounds of sterlings", a phrase that was later shortened to "pounds sterling". After the Norman Conquest, the pound was divided for simplicity of accounting into 20 shillings and into 240 pennies, or pence. For a discussion of the etymology of "sterling" see Sterling silver.
The currency sign is the pound sign, originally with two cross-bars, then later more commonly £ with a single cross-bar. The pound sign derives from the blackletter "L", from the abbreviation[citation needed] LSD - librae, solidi, denarii - used for the pounds, shillings and pence of the original duodecimal currency system. Libra was the basic Roman unit of weight, derived from the Latin word for scales or balance. The ISO 4217 currency code is GBP (Great Britain pound). Occasionally, the abbreviation UKP is used but this is incorrect. The Crown dependencies use their own (non-ISO) codes: GGP (Guernsey pound), JEP (Jersey pound) and IMP (Isle of Man pound). Stocks are often traded in pence, so traders may refer to pence sterling, GBX (sometimes GBp), when listing stock prices.
Indeed.
*replaces monocle*
Warp speed...
It needs to be going towards the Sun at warp speed.
It does not work without Spock's precise calculations.
You have to be very careful with time traveling solar-slingshots.
Forget a decimal point or two and it might end up as another Tunguska event...
Heeey...
Practicing those stealth skills picked up while playing MGS are we?
Hey... at least it will be off the street for a while.
Just imagine all the atmosphere you could save by also slashing his tires?
Breaking windows and windshield? Or by cutting his breaks?
Ah... screw all that.
Just wait for him to show up and club him to death.
Now... A wooden bat or one made out of aluminum? Which one is more environment friendly?
Yes. A tree did die to make that wooden bat, but it takes a shitload of power to make that aluminum bat.
Ah fuck it. Just get a large rock and crack his skull with it. Rocks are environment friendly.
What were we talkin' about again?
On Perspective
If you are like... to lazy to click the link on the slashdot front page.
Why would you give away perfectly good magnets to a douchebag when you can just as well key his hummer?
Yeah, but at least there is a consensus that you are a funny kind. :D
The fact that you posted the same joke twice in two minutes or the fact that it was moderated +5 Funny both times?
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosuit> Current versions of portions the BioSuit have consistently reached 25 kPa, and the team is currently aiming for 30 kPa for a baseline design. Also from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacesuit#Operating_pressure
Operating pressure
Generally, to supply enough oxygen for respiration, a spacesuit using pure oxygen must have a pressure of about 4.7 psi (32.4 kPa), equal to the 3 psi (20.7 kPa) partial pressure of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, plus 40 torr (5.3 kPa) CO2 and 47 torr (6.3 kPa) water vapor pressure, both of which must be subtracted from the alveolar pressure to get alveolar oxygen partial pressure in 100% oxygen atmospheres, by the alveolar gas equation.[1] The latter two figures add to 87 torr (11.6 kPa, 1.7 psi), which is why many modern spacesuits do not use 3 psi, but 4.7 psi (this is a slight overcorrection, as alveolar partial pressures at sea level are not a full 3 psi, but a bit less). In spacesuits that use 3 psi, the astronaut gets only 3 - 1.7 = 1.3 psi (9 kPa) of oxygen, which is about the alveolar oxygen partial pressure attained at an altitude of 6100 ft (1860 m) above sea level. This is about 78% of normal sea level pressure, about the same as pressure in a commercial passenger jet aircraft, and is the realistic lower limit for safe ordinary space suit pressurization which allows reasonable work capacity. Close... but no cigar.