For us slashdotters with computers, homes, internet, and probably a lot more, prison still is a deterrent, but when I look at a guy I saw at the Oxford Circus Underground station a couple of weeks ago, white as a sheet, thin as a rake, looked really bad (I gave him all the change in my pocket, if I went that way frequently I'd be taking him sandwiches), and I wonder why the system fails. If you're out on the streets, genuinely starving, just throw a brick through a window and confess police station, at the very least you get a bed for the night.
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The atmosphere (and the earths magnetic thing which induced the current in shuttle tethers) wont whizz past it, because the cable will not be moving relative to the earths surface. Charge from the atmosphere using the cable as a conduit is all covered in the space elevator faq's on numerous sites.
No, it would need to be a few tons. Put a blob of bluetack on the end of a string and whizz it round your head. Does if fall down? No. Is it 150lb? No.
Of course in the UK petrol and road tax (only a few tolls, mainly bridges, at the moment), raise 30bn/year. 5bn is spent on roads.
The problem (especially in the UK), with a lack of road tolls, are french lorrys filling up in calais (80cents/litre instead of 1.20 per litre), driving on british roads, then goign back to calais without stopping for petrol - large tanks means 500 mile trips are easilly possible. They dont pay the fixed Vehicle Excise Duty either, so while UK lorrys have to pay lots of tax, the french ones get off scot free.
Of course, go to France and you get some of the highest road tolls in the EU.
Indeed. Flew Bristol - Glasgow, 45 minute flight, at easter. Check in is a *minimum* of 40 minutes before take off, and the time taxiing is about 5 mintues on both sides. The entire door-door trip is nearer 3 hours, 4 times longer then the time in the air. Even the (slow) train only takes 5 hours.
Trains can manage 200mph+, planes 500mph, however planes have about 2 hours of cruft for security/check in etc. Point to point, a decent rail network will be faster for trips upto about 600-700 miles, and probably better for most purposes for trips upto 1000 miles (an extra hour on the train, but you get to stretch your legs, use a mobile phone, charge your laptop from the mains, sit face to face with collegues etc)
An overnight on a train is a lot better then a plane too. If Eurostar got its butt sorted out I could get on a train at 10PM in London, and get off the train at 8AM in Venice - 1000 miles in 10 hours, in a couchette, it would cost about 100 single based on italian prices, and be more comfortable then an hour to the airport, 2 hours checking in, hour and a half flight, half hour retrieving baggage, 30 minutes to the town - 5 1/2 hours minimum.
Oh yeas, I forget the U.S. Is 5-10 years behind the rest of the world when it comes to mobiles. Most people use predictive text, but kids nowadays toch-type on their mobiles at 30wpm plus.
Want to check/send lots of emails on the go? You can get full keyboard phones, not as nice as a decent handheld keyboard, but not too bad.
Almost all spam (and certainly all porno spam) I get is HTML. I dont have html enabled in kmail, no problems at work or in internet cafes then.
Of course I was sitting next to a guy in shepherds bush a couple of days ago looking up domimatrix whipping stuff, then he sat there, in a public cafe, and phoned one up and made an appointment
Not to mention (well, this is the case in the UK), the government pushing everyone into higher and furthur education, with a target of 50% of people getting a degree. thousands graduate from comp-sci courses in the UK each year and enter a saturated amrket. Most of the people I graduated with are serving big macs at the moment, I was lucky to diversify in uni and get into running the tv station, so I've got a proper job at the BBC, but thats the exception.
My Libertarian side says AOL are free to do whatever the hell they want, it's their server. If you ask the AOL server for a page and it send you the goatse man, thats fine, thats their right. Vote with your wallet and dont buy their service.
My more centrist side says this could be abusing a monopoly (or at least dominant position), OK they dont have a microsoft style monopoly, but they do have the monopoly over Joe Stupid.
The average american isnt, however the average american certainly can, and wont know about it.
Of course, the Iranians can see traffic routed to anonymiser.com via their border routers, as well as block it. The only true anonymizer would be
1) Distributed, bit torrent style, with different requests bounced through 3 or 4 anonymisers in a random order 2) Secure and encrypted
Therefore, even if you run an anonymizer, you dont know the true source and half the time you dont know the true destination, and you cant sniff the packets either.
I wasnt trying to correct him, I was just generally interested if he deliberatly chose "could care" instead of "couldnt care". I've seen tons of people doing it, and was wondering who was wrong
Most "people with disabilities" could care less what you called them.
Why is is "could care less" - that implies they care about it slightly. "Couldn't care less" means you dont care at all, what I've alwayys said. ("What do you want for dinner//couldn't care less").
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I'm -gasp!- french
Oh, I'm sorry
The bungee jumps were always the same number as the weddings
Scum CHOOSES to be scum
I take it you're the rule that proove the exception.
Typically I ignore "beggars" who are probably on a better wage then me, but this guy didnt even have any veins to inject
Thats fine for geostationary, however for LEO satelites you'll still need to accelerate sideways.
The difference in force acting on a satelite at 150km (100m) due to gravity is about 90% that of the force acting at sea level.
I thought the majority of mass was getting us up to orbital velocity? Going straight up and back down is a lot easier
For us slashdotters with computers, homes, internet, and probably a lot more, prison still is a deterrent, but when I look at a guy I saw at the Oxford Circus Underground station a couple of weeks ago, white as a sheet, thin as a rake, looked really bad (I gave him all the change in my pocket, if I went that way frequently I'd be taking him sandwiches), and I wonder why the system fails. If you're out on the streets, genuinely starving, just throw a brick through a window and confess police station, at the very least you get a bed for the night.
The atmosphere (and the earths magnetic thing which induced the current in shuttle tethers) wont whizz past it, because the cable will not be moving relative to the earths surface. Charge from the atmosphere using the cable as a conduit is all covered in the space elevator faq's on numerous sites.
No, it would need to be a few tons. Put a blob of bluetack on the end of a string and whizz it round your head. Does if fall down? No. Is it 150lb? No.
Actually, the nanofibres might be a health hazard on inhalation
Of course in the UK petrol and road tax (only a few tolls, mainly bridges, at the moment), raise 30bn/year. 5bn is spent on roads.
The problem (especially in the UK), with a lack of road tolls, are french lorrys filling up in calais (80cents/litre instead of 1.20 per litre), driving on british roads, then goign back to calais without stopping for petrol - large tanks means 500 mile trips are easilly possible. They dont pay the fixed Vehicle Excise Duty either, so while UK lorrys have to pay lots of tax, the french ones get off scot free.
Of course, go to France and you get some of the highest road tolls in the EU.
Indeed. Flew Bristol - Glasgow, 45 minute flight, at easter. Check in is a *minimum* of 40 minutes before take off, and the time taxiing is about 5 mintues on both sides. The entire door-door trip is nearer 3 hours, 4 times longer then the time in the air. Even the (slow) train only takes 5 hours.
Trains can manage 200mph+, planes 500mph, however planes have about 2 hours of cruft for security/check in etc. Point to point, a decent rail network will be faster for trips upto about 600-700 miles, and probably better for most purposes for trips upto 1000 miles (an extra hour on the train, but you get to stretch your legs, use a mobile phone, charge your laptop from the mains, sit face to face with collegues etc)
An overnight on a train is a lot better then a plane too. If Eurostar got its butt sorted out I could get on a train at 10PM in London, and get off the train at 8AM in Venice - 1000 miles in 10 hours, in a couchette, it would cost about 100 single based on italian prices, and be more comfortable then an hour to the airport, 2 hours checking in, hour and a half flight, half hour retrieving baggage, 30 minutes to the town - 5 1/2 hours minimum.
which is great if you are getting data to correct. Turn GPS off completely though and you're screwed.
Might not be a bad way to do 100% hands-free text messaging.
Yeah, it's called a phone call dood
Oh yeas, I forget the U.S. Is 5-10 years behind the rest of the world when it comes to mobiles. Most people use predictive text, but kids nowadays toch-type on their mobiles at 30wpm plus.
Want to check/send lots of emails on the go? You can get full keyboard phones, not as nice as a decent handheld keyboard, but not too bad.
Almost all spam (and certainly all porno spam) I get is HTML. I dont have html enabled in kmail, no problems at work or in internet cafes then.
Of course I was sitting next to a guy in shepherds bush a couple of days ago looking up domimatrix whipping stuff, then he sat there, in a public cafe, and phoned one up and made an appointment
Say what you will about the RIAA, they got no complaints from me :D
A proper gallon is 4.54 litres - 8 pints (568ml). A U.S. Gallon is smaller, arround 3.5l
Force (admitadly its been a while since I did any physics) is measured in kgms^-2 not kgm. (F (N) = m (kg) * a (ms^2)
Tolkein's Ring?
Not to mention (well, this is the case in the UK), the government pushing everyone into higher and furthur education, with a target of 50% of people getting a degree. thousands graduate from comp-sci courses in the UK each year and enter a saturated amrket. Most of the people I graduated with are serving big macs at the moment, I was lucky to diversify in uni and get into running the tv station, so I've got a proper job at the BBC, but thats the exception.
My Libertarian side says AOL are free to do whatever the hell they want, it's their server. If you ask the AOL server for a page and it send you the goatse man, thats fine, thats their right. Vote with your wallet and dont buy their service.
My more centrist side says this could be abusing a monopoly (or at least dominant position), OK they dont have a microsoft style monopoly, but they do have the monopoly over Joe Stupid.
My cynical side says who gives a flying fuck
The average american isnt, however the average american certainly can, and wont know about it.
Of course, the Iranians can see traffic routed to anonymiser.com via their border routers, as well as block it. The only true anonymizer would be
1) Distributed, bit torrent style, with different requests bounced through 3 or 4 anonymisers in a random order
2) Secure and encrypted
Therefore, even if you run an anonymizer, you dont know the true source and half the time you dont know the true destination, and you cant sniff the packets either.
cool, wanna send me half your wages :D?
I wasnt trying to correct him, I was just generally interested if he deliberatly chose "could care" instead of "couldnt care". I've seen tons of people doing it, and was wondering who was wrong
Finally a use for IPV6!
Most "people with disabilities" could care less what you called them.
Why is is "could care less" - that implies they care about it slightly. "Couldn't care less" means you dont care at all, what I've alwayys said. ("What do you want for dinner//couldn't care less").