Doesn't the maneuvering in space on the shuttle happen via boosters burning kind or explosive propellant? I don't understand how the drone could hold enough stuff to make enough adjustments over a year to avoid being shot down. Unless it has a huge payload, and the payload is just fuel... like a shuttle, only with the cargo bay stuffed with (max takeoff payload weight?) worth of fuel. I guess it doesn't need oxygen or food either. Or windows, or a cockpit, or a life support system, and monitors to display information, or lights.
Actually unmanned is looking pretty efficient. Shit that is a good idea.
Can one of you tell me, does Linux have good drivers for video-game oriented desktop graphics cards? I mean, will I be able to play Skyrim (which is a steam game I think) on Linux if this pushes through? I don't build computers anymore because it is cheaper and easier for me to play on xbox, but if this works well I will switch back. Firefox's spell checker wants me to capitalize 'linux'. Sweeet.
"The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder" Yeah that isn't a confirmation bias or anything...
That is a really weird thing that occurred to me, is that people need to start voting. I don't even think the presidency matters much, right? She/he can only veto things, and that isn't that important I guess. We should be spending way more time and attention on who we elect to congress and senate. Every one of those seats needs to be covered as much as the presidential election. Every time I hear about some bullshit bill that messes our stuff up, I figure that it must have been proposed by someone who was in fact elected to the position. That is bullshit.
It's happening everywhere else too. We have liberals or hipsters moving west from Cambridge and Boston to sleep-over towns like Sterling. These people end up actually going to the town meetings and voting on stuff that costs tons of damn money. They like to see police everywhere, so where we used to have about 4 officers who were very nice, we now have three shifts of six offices, 6 squad cars, 2 SUV's, 3 4-wheelers, a boat & a slew of other shit.
These folks just keep voting in more costly stuff, even though we have a very limited budget, and a lot of people cannot afford to live here anymore because of the taxes. So the people who have lived here for 30 years end up leaving to try to survive in some shitty urban environment further west, and the houses get bought up by more hipsters. They are also loud and fucking obnoxious in ways I never imagined were possible. They protest everything in damn sight, almost like they have nothing better to do. The people who used to live here would just volunteer at the recycling center and organize the town fair every year. They also make the schools fuck-all expensive, constantly demanding new technology and more teachers. So they don't pay the existing teachers, who are actually amazing & great and are who I owe my knowledge to, which makes them leave. So they get replaced with new teachers who are inexperienced and short-tempered, and merely teach children how to pass the MCAS instead of actually getting them interested in science and reading.
It is a friggin shame, and Texas is certainly not the only place suffering from it. The worst bit is these people think they know everything, because they went to college for some shitty psycho-babble bullshit degree or art history. They have never split wood all year so their family didn't freeze to death, or went hiking on the Appalachian trail. They have no appreciation for hard work and they have no sense of privacy rights. If I am only 24 and I can clearly see that shit, I can't imagine how my grandfather feels about it.
It sounds complicated. I mean, shit, if you hire someone to be the Anti-Slant Editor, how do you check that person's qualifications? How reliably can you expect that person to edit the articles?
Also, does the slant itself actually hinder the way the information being conveyed? I refuse to speculate what the ratios are, but IMHO most of the readers are probably there on a tiny fact finding mission, not really reading up on a whole subject. It's hard to check the bibliography anyways, especially for psychology stuff. You need a subscription to a lot of journals in order to actually check the data, and most folks just don't have them.
So if they are looking for the date of a fire or something, not really caring about who the blame for it was, then the writer trying to blame it on aliens doesn't even matter to the person who only cares about the date.
The only suggestion I have is that, possibly they can expand on the (I dunno what to call it) 'factual sidebar'. Include more stuff in it, completely neutral data without a essay attached to it. This makes the narrative of some articles smaller, so technically any slant would be less of a problem. Well, I guess that is just a band-aid... I got nothin'.
I dunno. People write the content, so it would be pretty hard to be a person who can let their own viewpoint slide when writing. There may even be some confirmation bias too. For example, a dude wants to write an article, so he looks for references. But he only looks at data that meshes with what he already knows about the topic. So the article gets slanted. Hell, I think I am pretty clever, but most of my posts on websites are pretty inflammatory because I don't review them or stop to consider my position (or anyone else)!
In my opinion, the best way to combat it is to let it happen, because that way you create the most content possible. Then you use a review process to improve the content. Actually this is pretty much what Wikipedia does, it seems to work out okay for them. With a large enough user-base you can probably run a lot of stuff like that. I wonder what the overhead statistics are like though (man hours on creation versus man hours on editing). Maybe the review process is where most of the fun is anyways. You could probably make it a day job, if you are good at research and stuff. Actually, I would love that. I would love to read references for articles and stuff all day, then help revise it. But now I am getting off-topic.
Well, that shouldn't be too difficult, considering a 2560 panel has, what, 10000 pixels per inch? Those things are like 25.4*15.9=404 inches over 2560*1600=4096000 pixels. Shitty apple display tech should be easy to beat.
The US grain belt feeds the entire fucking planet. We also produce a shitload of gasoline, in case no one noticed what we do with that oil. We make tons of shit, it just isn't finished goods.
I had a bone to pick with a bullshit question on the MCAS when I was in high school. None of my teachers could believe it had made it through the cracks, and the 'issue' was never resolved: one of the multiple choice question was something like 'which country did the USA receive the Statue of Liberty from?' France was not one of the four answers. I remember what they were: Britain, Spain, Germany, Canada. The people who make these tests are friggin idiots. There were a lot of questions that were to vague to answer correctly, and a whole lot more that were also fundamentally flawed. If I had the choice I would have refused to take it. They 'refused to grade' my essay for the end of the test, I assume because no one knew what the fuck I was talking about. Apparently 17 year-olds aren't supposed to write 40 pages on Nihilism for their voluntary essay at the end of the MCAS tests. The SAT's are even fucking more retarded. Bullshit testing is bullshit testing.
I wonder if the two reported injuries are from some badass with a huge pain tolerance standing in the beam for 20 seconds. This thing would cook you like an oven if you stayed under it, which makes it a lethal weapon imho.
If a media player holds thousands of songs at 1-2 dollars each, isn't it impossible to fill one of those things legally without spending assloads of cash?
What happened to the starving artist anyways, why the frig do people deserve to be rich for making some shitty music? There is a homeless dude right outside playing the guitar better than SRV.
My bad, I thought they were trying to prove that the WIFI was dangerous, so it didn't really matter what the rest of the machine was doing if it was small compared to the WIFI. It looks like the WIFI is worse for sperm, compared to sperm without wifi at the same temperature. That is the real newsworthy thing IMHO.
If the radiation from the machine itself was negligible then it means that a test with just the machine would not really matter. There is nothing wrong with the news report.
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Doesn't the maneuvering in space on the shuttle happen via boosters burning kind or explosive propellant? I don't understand how the drone could hold enough stuff to make enough adjustments over a year to avoid being shot down. Unless it has a huge payload, and the payload is just fuel... like a shuttle, only with the cargo bay stuffed with (max takeoff payload weight?) worth of fuel. I guess it doesn't need oxygen or food either. Or windows, or a cockpit, or a life support system, and monitors to display information, or lights.
Actually unmanned is looking pretty efficient. Shit that is a good idea.
Can one of you tell me, does Linux have good drivers for video-game oriented desktop graphics cards? I mean, will I be able to play Skyrim (which is a steam game I think) on Linux if this pushes through? I don't build computers anymore because it is cheaper and easier for me to play on xbox, but if this works well I will switch back. Firefox's spell checker wants me to capitalize 'linux'. Sweeet.
"The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder" Yeah that isn't a confirmation bias or anything...
That is a really weird thing that occurred to me, is that people need to start voting. I don't even think the presidency matters much, right? She/he can only veto things, and that isn't that important I guess. We should be spending way more time and attention on who we elect to congress and senate. Every one of those seats needs to be covered as much as the presidential election. Every time I hear about some bullshit bill that messes our stuff up, I figure that it must have been proposed by someone who was in fact elected to the position. That is bullshit.
What is the jim crow stuff? I have never heard of that, and google search just gives me a bunch of youtube songs to listen to.
red herring
Yeah because the kinect technology hasn't been in development since 1999 or anything, you friggin fanboy
It's happening everywhere else too. We have liberals or hipsters moving west from Cambridge and Boston to sleep-over towns like Sterling. These people end up actually going to the town meetings and voting on stuff that costs tons of damn money. They like to see police everywhere, so where we used to have about 4 officers who were very nice, we now have three shifts of six offices, 6 squad cars, 2 SUV's, 3 4-wheelers, a boat & a slew of other shit.
These folks just keep voting in more costly stuff, even though we have a very limited budget, and a lot of people cannot afford to live here anymore because of the taxes. So the people who have lived here for 30 years end up leaving to try to survive in some shitty urban environment further west, and the houses get bought up by more hipsters. They are also loud and fucking obnoxious in ways I never imagined were possible. They protest everything in damn sight, almost like they have nothing better to do. The people who used to live here would just volunteer at the recycling center and organize the town fair every year. They also make the schools fuck-all expensive, constantly demanding new technology and more teachers. So they don't pay the existing teachers, who are actually amazing & great and are who I owe my knowledge to, which makes them leave. So they get replaced with new teachers who are inexperienced and short-tempered, and merely teach children how to pass the MCAS instead of actually getting them interested in science and reading.
It is a friggin shame, and Texas is certainly not the only place suffering from it. The worst bit is these people think they know everything, because they went to college for some shitty psycho-babble bullshit degree or art history. They have never split wood all year so their family didn't freeze to death, or went hiking on the Appalachian trail. They have no appreciation for hard work and they have no sense of privacy rights. If I am only 24 and I can clearly see that shit, I can't imagine how my grandfather feels about it.
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It sounds complicated. I mean, shit, if you hire someone to be the Anti-Slant Editor, how do you check that person's qualifications? How reliably can you expect that person to edit the articles?
Also, does the slant itself actually hinder the way the information being conveyed? I refuse to speculate what the ratios are, but IMHO most of the readers are probably there on a tiny fact finding mission, not really reading up on a whole subject. It's hard to check the bibliography anyways, especially for psychology stuff. You need a subscription to a lot of journals in order to actually check the data, and most folks just don't have them.
So if they are looking for the date of a fire or something, not really caring about who the blame for it was, then the writer trying to blame it on aliens doesn't even matter to the person who only cares about the date.
The only suggestion I have is that, possibly they can expand on the (I dunno what to call it) 'factual sidebar'. Include more stuff in it, completely neutral data without a essay attached to it. This makes the narrative of some articles smaller, so technically any slant would be less of a problem. Well, I guess that is just a band-aid ... I got nothin'.
I dunno. People write the content, so it would be pretty hard to be a person who can let their own viewpoint slide when writing. There may even be some confirmation bias too. For example, a dude wants to write an article, so he looks for references. But he only looks at data that meshes with what he already knows about the topic. So the article gets slanted. Hell, I think I am pretty clever, but most of my posts on websites are pretty inflammatory because I don't review them or stop to consider my position (or anyone else)!
In my opinion, the best way to combat it is to let it happen, because that way you create the most content possible. Then you use a review process to improve the content. Actually this is pretty much what Wikipedia does, it seems to work out okay for them. With a large enough user-base you can probably run a lot of stuff like that. I wonder what the overhead statistics are like though (man hours on creation versus man hours on editing). Maybe the review process is where most of the fun is anyways. You could probably make it a day job, if you are good at research and stuff. Actually, I would love that. I would love to read references for articles and stuff all day, then help revise it. But now I am getting off-topic.
Well, that shouldn't be too difficult, considering a 2560 panel has, what, 10000 pixels per inch? Those things are like 25.4*15.9=404 inches over 2560*1600=4096000 pixels. Shitty apple display tech should be easy to beat.
The US grain belt feeds the entire fucking planet. We also produce a shitload of gasoline, in case no one noticed what we do with that oil. We make tons of shit, it just isn't finished goods.
That is a stupid friggin question.
Indeed. The retirement generation and baby boomers are friggin retarded.
Defense spending is what created the heavy press program... which is what the article is about...
Wonderful isn't it? I love every second of it.
I had a bone to pick with a bullshit question on the MCAS when I was in high school. None of my teachers could believe it had made it through the cracks, and the 'issue' was never resolved: one of the multiple choice question was something like 'which country did the USA receive the Statue of Liberty from?' France was not one of the four answers. I remember what they were: Britain, Spain, Germany, Canada. The people who make these tests are friggin idiots. There were a lot of questions that were to vague to answer correctly, and a whole lot more that were also fundamentally flawed. If I had the choice I would have refused to take it. They 'refused to grade' my essay for the end of the test, I assume because no one knew what the fuck I was talking about. Apparently 17 year-olds aren't supposed to write 40 pages on Nihilism for their voluntary essay at the end of the MCAS tests. The SAT's are even fucking more retarded. Bullshit testing is bullshit testing.
I wonder if the two reported injuries are from some badass with a huge pain tolerance standing in the beam for 20 seconds. This thing would cook you like an oven if you stayed under it, which makes it a lethal weapon imho.
If a media player holds thousands of songs at 1-2 dollars each, isn't it impossible to fill one of those things legally without spending assloads of cash? What happened to the starving artist anyways, why the frig do people deserve to be rich for making some shitty music? There is a homeless dude right outside playing the guitar better than SRV.
Gimme!
I want 64 bit firefox. I wouldn't care about memory leaks if it could use the memory I payed for.
Because most cable companies are also ISPs, and they will start charging your web access the same way.
My bad, I thought they were trying to prove that the WIFI was dangerous, so it didn't really matter what the rest of the machine was doing if it was small compared to the WIFI. It looks like the WIFI is worse for sperm, compared to sperm without wifi at the same temperature. That is the real newsworthy thing IMHO.
If the radiation from the machine itself was negligible then it means that a test with just the machine would not really matter. There is nothing wrong with the news report.