It's 37 degrees north (slashdot's buggy, broken comment system won't let me use a degree symbol). That puts it on the same latitude as Lisbon, Palma, Palermo and Seoul.
They're all a hell of a lot further south than 57 degrees north, and I'm not particularly far north...
So if you're a freethinking atheist, does that mean it's okay to believe in God? Wouldn't want to be dragged out of your freethinking ways by atheist dogma, would you?
Wouldn't bother me particularly. As long as they weren't chewing with their mouth half-open or making disgusting slurping noises with their tea, they can stare at whatever the hell they want. It's a free country, over here at least.
I don't really see how CCTV infringes my privacy. If I'm in a public space, I don't really have any expectation of privacy, do I? At the moment there's a CCTV camera pointed at the area I'm working in (a quiet, low-traffic part of a very large industrial site). If the security guy wants to sit and watch me eat my lunch, that's fine with me. If I have an accident then they'll be able to send a first-aider round hopefully before I lose all eight pints...
Have you forgotten that hams have only a secondary allocation on the 70cm band?
BPL isn't on 70cm, though. Its operating frequencies seem to be designed to drop harmonics all over the HF amateur bands, causing particularly nasty interference on 40m and 20m. It turns out, though, that having a 20m dipole parallel to the mains wiring going into the house means that as little as 15W on 14MHz jams BPL completely, rendering it useless.
After which it's just a question of contacting the relevant authorities with the data, and asking them to check the findings.
That's the thing, though. I can do that *legally*. If my licensed radio equipment obliterates your *unlicensed* radio equipment, then tough shit - you get to move, or buy better gear.
Of course the flip side of it is that we can generate enough noise of our own to render BPL unusable. Wifi, too - want to see how well your 50mW wifi router manages against my 400W 2.4GHz amp?
A more serious problem is that someone thought it would be a great idea to put all the car remote central locking fobs on 433.920MHz - right in the middle of the digital modes segment and right beside one of the common internet voice gateway channels. Fire up your transmitter around there, and watch everyone fail to unlock their cars...
America doesn't really have a "food identity" though. It's all just bland, greasy meat smeared with hot sauce, or burnt bacon with hot sauce, or stuff that is sold as "cheese" in the US, industrial sealant in the UK and most of Europe, and illegal in France and Switzerland.
They eat some pretty disgusting stuff in the US, usually made by taking something that wasn't brilliant to begin with, then either boiling it until it's grey or burning it under a hot grill, then dumping hot sauce on it.
I f you wanted rid of Osama bin Laden, then do it properly. "Accidentally killed"? "Buried at sea"? Yeah, right. You didn't think that maybe - just, *maybe* - it might have been a good idea to do it properly, have some proper justice, and close the book finally on the guy?
You fucked up, America, and no amount of shouting and chest-beating is going to fix it. You shouldn't be proud of it. Ask the Israelis why.
Frequently these people are not alive in any meaningful sense of the term. Their bodies stay warm because it turns out that if you shoot nutrients straight into their veins and pump air in and out of their lungs at roughly a normal breathing rate, then most of the autonomous processes manage to keep some stuff going. You could cut their head off and they'd continue to "live" in the same way.
Well, where are you going to get your power from? Coal? Oil? Wind turbines that don't work when it's too windy, or not windy enough, and have a design life ten years? Solar panels that only generate electricity for a couple of hours a day in winter? Hydro-electric schemes that flood thousands of acres of land?
In Scotland, prescriptions are free. Even in England and Wales, though, £7 is better than the pick-a-number prescription pricing in the US. You also get free prescriptions if you're a pensioner or unemployed - good luck with that in the US's third-world cash up front healthcare system.
From the article, it sounds like the flight data recorder has basically been smashed to pieces. This is usually what happens to them; they're really only useful in relatively low-speed accidents.
Mass transit or whatnot is clearly superior to an infinite number of monkeys driving cars at the same time.
Only in the subset of transport where you have a lot of people who all need to go from the same place, to the same place (or at least, places along the same route), and all at the same time.
I can't use public transport, because it doesn't go where I want, from where I want, when I want, and I can't carry a tonne of tools with me. If I can't do that, then your public transport systems stop working rather quickly.
The largest thing I have ever driven on a regular basis is a large minivan, which got 18 mpg.
Okay, and I'm guessing that's US gallons which are 3.8 litres making the figure seem artificially low;-)
In town I get about 40mpg from my van, which drops to about 35mpg when the back is full; this corresponds to about 34 and 30 mpUSg respectively. On the motorway I get up to about 47mpUKg, equivalent to about 40mpUSg. This is from a 2.2 litre turbodiesel engine, which will let it cruise comfortably in 6th at around 2200rpm with not much more than tyre rumble in the cabin...
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Or you could be posting from Scotland. "Super-injunctions" only exist in English law, which doesn't apply here.
It's 37 degrees north (slashdot's buggy, broken comment system won't let me use a degree symbol). That puts it on the same latitude as Lisbon, Palma, Palermo and Seoul.
They're all a hell of a lot further south than 57 degrees north, and I'm not particularly far north...
Funny thing, this guy is in Maryland - ever notice how all the solar power evangelists live really far south?
I hope you were being intentionally ironic.
It's like raaeeeaaain on your wedding day.
Atheists are just religious whackos that believe in one god less than the fundie Christians.
If The Rapture doesn't come, I'll be laughing at the evangelicals on TV too.
If The Rapture *does* come, however, it'll be worth it to see the look on Richard Dawkins' face.
As for motorcycles, maybe I'll wait until about 6:30 to go round and buy that CB250RS Superdream I've had my eye on...
So if you're a freethinking atheist, does that mean it's okay to believe in God? Wouldn't want to be dragged out of your freethinking ways by atheist dogma, would you?
Wouldn't bother me particularly. As long as they weren't chewing with their mouth half-open or making disgusting slurping noises with their tea, they can stare at whatever the hell they want. It's a free country, over here at least.
I don't really see how CCTV infringes my privacy. If I'm in a public space, I don't really have any expectation of privacy, do I? At the moment there's a CCTV camera pointed at the area I'm working in (a quiet, low-traffic part of a very large industrial site). If the security guy wants to sit and watch me eat my lunch, that's fine with me. If I have an accident then they'll be able to send a first-aider round hopefully before I lose all eight pints...
Have you forgotten that hams have only a secondary allocation on the 70cm band?
BPL isn't on 70cm, though. Its operating frequencies seem to be designed to drop harmonics all over the HF amateur bands, causing particularly nasty interference on 40m and 20m. It turns out, though, that having a 20m dipole parallel to the mains wiring going into the house means that as little as 15W on 14MHz jams BPL completely, rendering it useless.
After which it's just a question of contacting the relevant authorities with the data, and asking them to check the findings.
That's the thing, though. I can do that *legally*. If my licensed radio equipment obliterates your *unlicensed* radio equipment, then tough shit - you get to move, or buy better gear.
Of course the flip side of it is that we can generate enough noise of our own to render BPL unusable. Wifi, too - want to see how well your 50mW wifi router manages against my 400W 2.4GHz amp?
A more serious problem is that someone thought it would be a great idea to put all the car remote central locking fobs on 433.920MHz - right in the middle of the digital modes segment and right beside one of the common internet voice gateway channels. Fire up your transmitter around there, and watch everyone fail to unlock their cars...
America doesn't really have a "food identity" though. It's all just bland, greasy meat smeared with hot sauce, or burnt bacon with hot sauce, or stuff that is sold as "cheese" in the US, industrial sealant in the UK and most of Europe, and illegal in France and Switzerland.
They eat some pretty disgusting stuff in the US, usually made by taking something that wasn't brilliant to begin with, then either boiling it until it's grey or burning it under a hot grill, then dumping hot sauce on it.
I f you wanted rid of Osama bin Laden, then do it properly. "Accidentally killed"? "Buried at sea"? Yeah, right. You didn't think that maybe - just, *maybe* - it might have been a good idea to do it properly, have some proper justice, and close the book finally on the guy?
You fucked up, America, and no amount of shouting and chest-beating is going to fix it. You shouldn't be proud of it. Ask the Israelis why.
Frequently these people are not alive in any meaningful sense of the term. Their bodies stay warm because it turns out that if you shoot nutrients straight into their veins and pump air in and out of their lungs at roughly a normal breathing rate, then most of the autonomous processes manage to keep some stuff going. You could cut their head off and they'd continue to "live" in the same way.
I don't call that "alive".
No, the digital data is not stored on an audio track. It's stored as digital data, with the modified Laserdisc player appearing as a SCSI disk.
Well, where are you going to get your power from? Coal? Oil? Wind turbines that don't work when it's too windy, or not windy enough, and have a design life ten years? Solar panels that only generate electricity for a couple of hours a day in winter? Hydro-electric schemes that flood thousands of acres of land?
If you want to shiver in a dark cave, go right ahead. I like having electricity.
Indy Car racing is just heavy cars going at normal road speeds around an oval track. Have you had a look at the Nurburgring?
ATTENTION SLASHDOT JANITORS: FIX YOUR BROKEN WEBSITE. Non-ASCII characters used to work, now they don't. You have a regression. Fix it.
Can't fucking demonstrate evolution in the lab my ass.
Okay, so you've got speciation. How do you get from there to evolution?
In Scotland, prescriptions are free. Even in England and Wales, though, £7 is better than the pick-a-number prescription pricing in the US. You also get free prescriptions if you're a pensioner or unemployed - good luck with that in the US's third-world cash up front healthcare system.
The Apple IIGS ran Wolfenstein 3D, so... maybe.
I don't go to hotels cheap enough to have all that crap in the rooms.
From the article, it sounds like the flight data recorder has basically been smashed to pieces. This is usually what happens to them; they're really only useful in relatively low-speed accidents.
Mass transit or whatnot is clearly superior to an infinite number of monkeys driving cars at the same time.
Only in the subset of transport where you have a lot of people who all need to go from the same place, to the same place (or at least, places along the same route), and all at the same time.
I can't use public transport, because it doesn't go where I want, from where I want, when I want, and I can't carry a tonne of tools with me. If I can't do that, then your public transport systems stop working rather quickly.
The largest thing I have ever driven on a regular basis is a large minivan, which got 18 mpg.
Okay, and I'm guessing that's US gallons which are 3.8 litres making the figure seem artificially low ;-)
In town I get about 40mpg from my van, which drops to about 35mpg when the back is full; this corresponds to about 34 and 30 mpUSg respectively. On the motorway I get up to about 47mpUKg, equivalent to about 40mpUSg. This is from a 2.2 litre turbodiesel engine, which will let it cruise comfortably in 6th at around 2200rpm with not much more than tyre rumble in the cabin...