The French Resistance weren't dealing with drones controlled from half a planet away.
If you decide to try and overthrow the corrupt tyrannical US government of five minutes into the future, some kid in a nondescript building in a nondescript army base in a nondescript part of the US will blow you into chunky salsa, and go back to scratching his balls and reading comic books.
You know what's involved in getting a shotgun licence here? Post off the forms with a copy of your driving licence or passport, wait a couple of days while they check you're not a violent criminal, then make sure you're at home to sign for the letter. *Maybe* the police will come round to check you're not, in fact, a dangerous violent nutter in person, and to make sure you've got somewhere safe to store a shotgun. It's a little bit stricter if you want a "proper" firearms licence.
It's still easier than getting a motorbike licence for a 50cc step-through scooter.
Windows 8 won't have the same apps on your phone as on your desktop. It'll have whatever apps software companies decide to port across to Windows 8 for ARM. It's just like Windows CE in that respect, so you'll end up with cut-down "Express" versions of a few of Microsoft's own programs, a few custom-written things for parcel delivery van drivers, and 200 different Sudoku games with varying amounts of malware.
At least with Linux you stand some chance of being able to port apps to a mobile platform, because the source is available.
Up here at 57 degrees north, we either get no snow at all (like this winter) or knee-deep snow for months (like last winter). In knee-deep snow on unploughed roads I only got my RWD Mercedes Vito van stuck once, and that was when I went onto a soft verge trying to avoid a bogged 4x4. I didn't get my FWD (and heavier than the van!) Citroen CX stuck at all, but the higher ground clearance probably helped - hydraulic suspension FTW.
Four wheel drive is a complete waste of time in snow. It doesn't help you get through it, it just gets you further in before you get stuck. Knowing how to drive in snow and carrying salt, a shovel, and a bit of matting gets you through snow.
So for the two or three days a year you might not get to work, you buy a huge 4x4 that spends the other 360-odd days of the year being a collossal drain on your resources?
... and even despite that, it costs about the same per kilometer to drive in the EU and UK than it does in the US, thanks to their comically inefficient vehicles.
Well, cities are quite suitable for mass transit. If you live and work in a city, you pretty much don't need a car. You certainly don't need a three tonne 4WD truck that gets through an absurd amount of fuel.
So if vox gated off when he said "a" in "a man", why isn't there a gap in the transmission about the length of the missing "a"? Also "a" is a nice loud vowel, which will trip the vox quite easily.
The other thing of course is that now so many manufacturers have strange custom bezels for the stereo, so if you rip a stereo out of a car it will only fit the same make and model. Furthermore, these days the stereo display is integrated into the dashboard, and the controls are integrated into the steering wheel. So, even if you remove the stereo and fit it to an identical car, the serial numbers don't match up and it won't work properly.
A lot of keyless entry systems work in the ISM frequencies around 433.920MHz - which is annoyingly close to one of the commonly-used 70cm channels around here.
It's possible that he was using a UHF link to his TX site to avoid detection, somewhere around 433.9MHz.
Ah, but if they fight to take the land back then they're labelled "terrorists". I guess they should just quietly lie down and let themselves be herded into ghettos, so that Israel can expand its lebensraum.
I wonder when the Israelis are going to start being honest about what they are doing to the Palestinians, and maybe start tattooing numbers on their arms before they slaughter them?
I think you may have got the wrong idea. I don't smoke, and never have. However, about the only thing that would make me want to start is the pathetic "oooh yuck [cough cough cough] oh that is disgusting [cough cough]" shit that people do (frequently ex-smokers, I've noticed) when someone half a mile away lights up.
Getting back on track here, if you don't like 3D, don't go to 3D screenings. I'm sure there were people out there who complained that colour films made them nauseous, or talkies gave them a headache. Eventually, they either died out or pulled their precious little autistic heads out of their backsides.
I've yet to find anyone who gets a headache or motion sickness from 3D films, that doesn't also get a headache or motion sickness from video games, mobile phones, certain brands of chocolate but not others from the same manufacturer, soft drinks, plastic bottles, someone smoking a cigarette on the other side of the street (this one usually accompanied by said headache-sufferer trying to cough their lungs inside out), public transport, or indeed anything else they think they can get away with whining about.
I don't know about where you live, but in the UK if you want a good example of prior art of a rounded rectangle as a design element, you could point at a road sign.
Most cubesats up there transmit telemetry via Morse code on UHF, up around 435MHz. With a simple homebrew 4-element Yagi and a cheap multi-mode HT (it can receive SSB, but only transmits on FM) I can pick up the signals from any cubesats that go past.
The stack of Zip disks is an accurate (to a couple of mm) representation of the size of a cubesat. Yes, really. That's what I'm listening to, at somewhere around 1000km away. When the cubesat is launched from its tube, a little springy wire aerial about the size of one of the elements on the Yagi (about 15cm) pops out.
It's not a hell of a lot bigger than the radio in the picture, is it? You could toss one of those out of the ISS with the PTT button taped down, and expect to hear it for a day or so.
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Pretty much, and continuously. Have you seen someone with norovirus?
The French Resistance weren't dealing with drones controlled from half a planet away.
If you decide to try and overthrow the corrupt tyrannical US government of five minutes into the future, some kid in a nondescript building in a nondescript army base in a nondescript part of the US will blow you into chunky salsa, and go back to scratching his balls and reading comic books.
You know what's involved in getting a shotgun licence here? Post off the forms with a copy of your driving licence or passport, wait a couple of days while they check you're not a violent criminal, then make sure you're at home to sign for the letter. *Maybe* the police will come round to check you're not, in fact, a dangerous violent nutter in person, and to make sure you've got somewhere safe to store a shotgun. It's a little bit stricter if you want a "proper" firearms licence.
It's still easier than getting a motorbike licence for a 50cc step-through scooter.
Yeah, who'd have thought it? The kind of dangerous crazy person who wants to own a gun is also the kind of crazy person to make death threats.
Windows 8 won't have the same apps on your phone as on your desktop. It'll have whatever apps software companies decide to port across to Windows 8 for ARM. It's just like Windows CE in that respect, so you'll end up with cut-down "Express" versions of a few of Microsoft's own programs, a few custom-written things for parcel delivery van drivers, and 200 different Sudoku games with varying amounts of malware.
At least with Linux you stand some chance of being able to port apps to a mobile platform, because the source is available.
Hah, it gets funnier and funnier! Now my sig has been blanked. So, the site mods are totally impartial, are they?
So, making jokes about Democrats is funny, but making jokes about Republicans is flamebait? Good to see free speech is alive and well!
Booom, instant "(Score:0, Flamebait)"! Good to see free speech is alive and well!
Want to get to Mars tomorrow?
Tell the Republicans that it's populated by brown people who have oil and don't like Israel.
Up here at 57 degrees north, we either get no snow at all (like this winter) or knee-deep snow for months (like last winter). In knee-deep snow on unploughed roads I only got my RWD Mercedes Vito van stuck once, and that was when I went onto a soft verge trying to avoid a bogged 4x4. I didn't get my FWD (and heavier than the van!) Citroen CX stuck at all, but the higher ground clearance probably helped - hydraulic suspension FTW.
Four wheel drive is a complete waste of time in snow. It doesn't help you get through it, it just gets you further in before you get stuck. Knowing how to drive in snow and carrying salt, a shovel, and a bit of matting gets you through snow.
So for the two or three days a year you might not get to work, you buy a huge 4x4 that spends the other 360-odd days of the year being a collossal drain on your resources?
Yeah, that sounds quite sensible.
in Europe its way worse then that
... and even despite that, it costs about the same per kilometer to drive in the EU and UK than it does in the US, thanks to their comically inefficient vehicles.
Well, cities are quite suitable for mass transit. If you live and work in a city, you pretty much don't need a car. You certainly don't need a three tonne 4WD truck that gets through an absurd amount of fuel.
So if vox gated off when he said "a" in "a man", why isn't there a gap in the transmission about the length of the missing "a"? Also "a" is a nice loud vowel, which will trip the vox quite easily.
The vox gating off idea doesn't hold water.
The other thing of course is that now so many manufacturers have strange custom bezels for the stereo, so if you rip a stereo out of a car it will only fit the same make and model. Furthermore, these days the stereo display is integrated into the dashboard, and the controls are integrated into the steering wheel. So, even if you remove the stereo and fit it to an identical car, the serial numbers don't match up and it won't work properly.
A lot of keyless entry systems work in the ISM frequencies around 433.920MHz - which is annoyingly close to one of the commonly-used 70cm channels around here.
It's possible that he was using a UHF link to his TX site to avoid detection, somewhere around 433.9MHz.
Surely it wouldn't have killed them to put a photo of the production verson *somewhere* in the post...?
Ah, but if they fight to take the land back then they're labelled "terrorists". I guess they should just quietly lie down and let themselves be herded into ghettos, so that Israel can expand its lebensraum.
I wonder when the Israelis are going to start being honest about what they are doing to the Palestinians, and maybe start tattooing numbers on their arms before they slaughter them?
So, *one* "terrorist" attack supposedly by Muslim extremists, as compared to decades of attacks by Christian extremists?
I think you may have got the wrong idea. I don't smoke, and never have. However, about the only thing that would make me want to start is the pathetic "oooh yuck [cough cough cough] oh that is disgusting [cough cough]" shit that people do (frequently ex-smokers, I've noticed) when someone half a mile away lights up.
Getting back on track here, if you don't like 3D, don't go to 3D screenings. I'm sure there were people out there who complained that colour films made them nauseous, or talkies gave them a headache. Eventually, they either died out or pulled their precious little autistic heads out of their backsides.
The only really significant terrorist attacks in the UK have been carried out by white Christians.
Try here, for a start.
You don't actually need to mock them. Just pointing out the obvious facts makes them stark raving mad anyway.
To be fair, that works just as well with Christians, too. The difference is, the Christians are more likely to park a car bomb outside your office.
I've yet to find anyone who gets a headache or motion sickness from 3D films, that doesn't also get a headache or motion sickness from video games, mobile phones, certain brands of chocolate but not others from the same manufacturer, soft drinks, plastic bottles, someone smoking a cigarette on the other side of the street (this one usually accompanied by said headache-sufferer trying to cough their lungs inside out), public transport, or indeed anything else they think they can get away with whining about.
I don't know about where you live, but in the UK if you want a good example of prior art of a rounded rectangle as a design element, you could point at a road sign.
Here's a photo of my cubesat ground station ;-)
Most cubesats up there transmit telemetry via Morse code on UHF, up around 435MHz. With a simple homebrew 4-element Yagi and a cheap multi-mode HT (it can receive SSB, but only transmits on FM) I can pick up the signals from any cubesats that go past.
The stack of Zip disks is an accurate (to a couple of mm) representation of the size of a cubesat. Yes, really. That's what I'm listening to, at somewhere around 1000km away. When the cubesat is launched from its tube, a little springy wire aerial about the size of one of the elements on the Yagi (about 15cm) pops out.
It's not a hell of a lot bigger than the radio in the picture, is it? You could toss one of those out of the ISS with the PTT button taped down, and expect to hear it for a day or so.