Despite the title that's never been true since Washington stepped down from the Presidency. It's a civilian giving the military instructions via a chain of command. There's been glitches such as Oliver North where apparently the President was issuing direct orders himself - but that fuckup led to selling weapons to people that had blown up more than one hundred US marines less than a year before.
In the 80s there was Cold War drama.
We fought the Commies inside Nicaragua.
Our friends were the Contras. Freedom was their mantra.
So we sent them lots of money for guns and landmines.
But Congress stopped the Contra money flow
Just 'cause they moved a teeny bit of blow.
But then a hero came forth.
His name was Oliver North.
He and Reagan went around the sissy Congress.
OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!
(You see, North secretly sold missiles to a harmless country called Iran who would always be a grateful ally. Then he gave the profits to the Contras. Genius!)
But the sales were uncovered by the press.
Reagan and North began to stress.
'Cause what they did was technically high treason! (But it was totally justified.)
North volunteered to take the blame,
to save Reagan from prison rape shame.
The truth he did bury with his hot secretary.
Thanks to her shredder, he got off totally scot-free!
if i need to adjust my finances by taking more money from rich people to pay off my ridiculous debt, then i am "fucking broke". thats suddenly not true if i'm the government? cant rely on rich people anyway, theyre rich enough to leave. the sane thing to do is cut back.
Or just print some money. That impacts rich people across the world a hell of a lot more than poor people.
Funny, I've been calling the problem of dumb people in democracy the palin effect.
Really? I can think of lots of effects to name after respected ex-Pythons that travelled the world educating, informing and entertaining us, but "dumb people in democracy" isn't one of them.
Before we're "disgusted with crimes that harm others", we should realize that different amounts of harm are lumped into the same criminal label. The disgust and stigma applies its heavy weight to all cases, not just the most heinous. In the name of "thinking of the children", we push for ever-tougher laws
I know someone who has to explain a "sex offender" label every time he applies to a job, because his high-school sweetheart's parents didn't like him. They even had him arrested and charged without their daughter's knowledge. Does he have "sick-fuckitude" for not breaking off a relationship during the three months they were on different sides of an arbitrary boundary? That's what disgusts me: that the panic about the crime can sometimes cause more harm than the crime itself. It's a treacherous domain indeed.
So your law is broken. There's a big difference between a 12 year old having sex with a 40 year old, and a 15 year old having sex with a 16 year old. Canada recognises this, Finland recognises it.
Inmarsat are testing out a new terminal which offers faster rates 1 the HDR terminal. It's still a little buggy, but it did work. That tops out at about 700kbit uplink though on the streaming (guaranteed bandwidth) service.
Last I heard there were only 4 terminals in the world.
One way is by having a job that requires sending and receiving large amounts of data. At least in the United States, cellular data costs 10 USD per GB.
(That's not including the inmarsat costs of course)
My data usage is capped at $160 a month, which gives me 200MB internationally, which is enough to deal with emails as long as I use wifi when it's available (offices, sometimes hotels). Without that cap international data is 10USD per Megabyte.
The bulk of the cost come from making international calls. One week I'm in Pakistan and calling someone in Kenya, the next I'm in China and calling someone in Australia. This usually happens away from wifi and landlines, so VOIP isn't possible. Just receiving a call in Brazil costs $1.90/minute, making a call from Brazil to South Africa costs $2.85/minute.
One potential way of reducing costs would be a mifi, a local simcard, and a voip phone, ideally one that ties in to our internal exchange like my mobile does, however that relies on reliable data connectivity, and keeping local simcards available and topped up.
Unfortunately I tend to visit 20-30 countries a year, often at the drop of a hat, sometimes rerouting as I'm travelling.
When I read news like this, my lousy programming job that pays 80k a years, seems like a total bullshit, compared to this. What makes me even sadder...... those super novas are so far away, and might have existed even longer than earth and our solar system. One day, our sun will go up in flame, and not even a trace of our existence will be left behind.
That will happen in about 2-5 biillion years. Even if mankind went extinct today, Voyager 1/2, Pioneer 10/11 and New Horizons will still exist (as well as the third stage booster from New Horizons), and likely continue to exist until the heat death of the universe.
Here in Australia, Apple have completely priced themselves out of the market. iPhone 5S 16 GB: $869 Compared with a brand-spanking-new: Google Nexus 5 16 GB: $420 (inc. shipping) It's hard to justify _double_ the price for effectively the same thing. Needless to say... I just bought the Nexus 5.
I buy the thing I knows works and will let me do what I want with minimal of effort. $500 or $1000 for a phone, when my phone bill is $15,000/year? Just like with laptops, I wish I could buy a proper thinkpad, at $3k or $5k, I don't really care. My last t410s physically died after 3 years (screen fell out), so I have a replacement one that I still had in stock. It's the last one though. I'm not looking forward to 2015.
My wife's android phone is crap. I'm sure the nexus is better, but that's enough to put me off android.
iThingys are the same, whether it's on an tablet or a phone, it works. Now I'm not keen on ios7, so I may reconsider an android thingy, but the number of geeks at work that complain about their androids is shocking.
If you'll please pay attention to our safety demonstration and procedures speech...
You mean the one where they explain how to use a seatbelt for everyone who hasn't been in a car in the last 40 years?
You'll notice how the majority of seatbelts in the majority of classes do not act like a car seatbelt. In emergencies, people tend to forget that, and rely on their muscle memory of "push button, seatbelt opens", rather than "lift flap, seatbelt opens"
Now some of us use airline seatbelts more than car seatbelts, so maybe in those cases it could be skipped, but that's a pretty small minority.
Like the war on water, it's largely been about control and government rules abetting private interests. I suppose in this case airlines and the faa and whoever the fuck else stands to make a buck off of this realized it is more profitable to let the monkeys paw their gadgets 100% of the time, instead of the usual 96%.
20 minutes from door close to takeoff, another 5 to 10k feet 10 minutes from 10k feet to landing, another 10 to the terminal
That's about 45 minutes per flight, or a good 15% of even a medium flight. If you're hopping around on short flights over half the flight will be "no electronics", which nowadays means "no books".
If this ruling is applied by the CAA in the UK, I will gain about 50 hours a year of time I can spend reading. That is a massive win.
That's because your phone is too close to the speakers. Someone's phone in row 32 much less row 2 won't give the pilots that RF interference to their headsets.
I don't know what airline YOU fly, but any flight attendant on any flight I've ever been on would make the passenger hang up, and if they refused, they'd call over the sky marshal.
Sky Marshall? What kind of a dictatorship do you live in?
After having lived in Russia for some 6 month cumulatively, I have this to say: Edward Snowden is going to love it.
A few reasons:
- Incredibly beautiful women - Incredibly cool clubs and bars - Awesome Moscow Ballet / Classical Music / Cultural Events / Arts / Museums - McDonalds has a whole wheat bun, need I say more?
It drops to -560 degrees in the winter. He used to live in Hawaii.
"Snowden did transition from a whistle blower to a spy though"
No. He did not.
He was a whistleblower and remains a whistleblower.
He did. Initially the U.S. media were supportive of him as a whistleblower. Their owners and editors then had their briefing, and suddenly actions that were pro-american whistleblowing were anti-american spying.
So yes, he didn't change, but the media's portrayal of him did, and that's what's important.
why? These were foreign executives. These were not Americans. There was no treason here. They, and any businesses that they are connected with in ANY FASHION, should simply be denied business licences in America.
But what would happen to all the honest hard-working Americans working for them?
The main issue we've got is the lack of warning we have. Even a year is too late if you want to divert large lumps of rock. Once you're going to divert something then you have to work out where its going to end up - no point diverting it from the earth this year, to have it end up crashing into something else which ends up sending 100 rocks at us.
Depends on the size, if diverting an extinction causing asteroid now means we have to divert 4 in 100 years, I'll take that.
Build an elevated, reinforced concrete shell around it. Have proper sump pumps etc for seepage, have doors you can seal, and bunker down. Build it tough enough and no storm surge will bother it, but you might lose your connectivity to the outside world.
Well you won't get flooded, but a normal data centre on the 17th floor won't get flooded (or if a flood does get 170' above sea level there's bigger problems)
However when you run out of fuel, that's a lot of steps to climb with buckets of fuel.
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Despite the title that's never been true since Washington stepped down from the Presidency. It's a civilian giving the military instructions via a chain of command. There's been glitches such as Oliver North where apparently the President was issuing direct orders himself - but that fuckup led to selling weapons to people that had blown up more than one hundred US marines less than a year before.
In the 80s there was Cold War drama.
We fought the Commies inside Nicaragua.
Our friends were the Contras. Freedom was their mantra.
So we sent them lots of money for guns and landmines.
But Congress stopped the Contra money flow
Just 'cause they moved a teeny bit of blow.
But then a hero came forth.
His name was Oliver North.
He and Reagan went around the sissy Congress.
OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!
(You see, North secretly sold missiles to a harmless country called Iran who would always be a grateful ally. Then he gave the profits to the Contras. Genius!)
But the sales were uncovered by the press.
Reagan and North began to stress.
'Cause what they did was technically high treason! (But it was totally justified.)
North volunteered to take the blame,
to save Reagan from prison rape shame.
The truth he did bury with his hot secretary.
Thanks to her shredder, he got off totally scot-free!
OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!
He's a soldier!
And a hero!
And a novelist!
And now he's on Fox News!
if i need to adjust my finances by taking more money from rich people to pay off my ridiculous debt, then i am "fucking broke". thats suddenly not true if i'm the government? cant rely on rich people anyway, theyre rich enough to leave.
the sane thing to do is cut back.
Or just print some money. That impacts rich people across the world a hell of a lot more than poor people.
It was Kathleen Sebelius who most recently said "whatever," in response to congressional inquiry about the turd that is Obamacare.
Good strategy blaming the liberals behaviors on the conservatives tho.
If you tell enough lies some of it might actually become the truth.
There are no liberals in the U.S Government
Funny, I've been calling the problem of dumb people in democracy the palin effect.
Really? I can think of lots of effects to name after respected ex-Pythons that travelled the world educating, informing and entertaining us, but "dumb people in democracy" isn't one of them.
...and you lost it again.
Before we're "disgusted with crimes that harm others", we should realize that different amounts of harm are lumped into the same criminal label. The disgust and stigma applies its heavy weight to all cases, not just the most heinous. In the name of "thinking of the children", we push for ever-tougher laws
I know someone who has to explain a "sex offender" label every time he applies to a job, because his high-school sweetheart's parents didn't like him. They even had him arrested and charged without their daughter's knowledge. Does he have "sick-fuckitude" for not breaking off a relationship during the three months they were on different sides of an arbitrary boundary? That's what disgusts me: that the panic about the crime can sometimes cause more harm than the crime itself. It's a treacherous domain indeed.
So your law is broken. There's a big difference between a 12 year old having sex with a 40 year old, and a 15 year old having sex with a 16 year old. Canada recognises this, Finland recognises it.
I've simplified the submission:
But what about Betteridge's law of headlines?
Holy shit, that was 5 years ago! Great, now you've made me feel old...
A few days ago I saw a post from someone that said their first bookmark was google. That made me feel ancient.
it basically shut down the city of san francisco for at least two weeks ... he deserves prison.
So you're saying that congress should be sent to prison?
Inmarsat are testing out a new terminal which offers faster rates 1 the HDR terminal. It's still a little buggy, but it did work. That tops out at about 700kbit uplink though on the streaming (guaranteed bandwidth) service.
Last I heard there were only 4 terminals in the world.
So, when a drive fails and I lose time/data
I'm not hiring you to set up my systems.
Most sane people would take a spare off the shelf and pop it into the array and drop the bad drive into the dead soldiers pile for later RMA.
And when they al start failing at the same time with the same fault, and you lose your 3rd drive in your 8 drive raid 6 in a few hours?
How the hell do you get a 15k phone bill?
One way is by having a job that requires sending and receiving large amounts of data. At least in the United States, cellular data costs 10 USD per GB.
(That's not including the inmarsat costs of course)
My data usage is capped at $160 a month, which gives me 200MB internationally, which is enough to deal with emails as long as I use wifi when it's available (offices, sometimes hotels). Without that cap international data is 10USD per Megabyte.
The bulk of the cost come from making international calls. One week I'm in Pakistan and calling someone in Kenya, the next I'm in China and calling someone in Australia. This usually happens away from wifi and landlines, so VOIP isn't possible. Just receiving a call in Brazil costs $1.90/minute, making a call from Brazil to South Africa costs $2.85/minute.
One potential way of reducing costs would be a mifi, a local simcard, and a voip phone, ideally one that ties in to our internal exchange like my mobile does, however that relies on reliable data connectivity, and keeping local simcards available and topped up.
Unfortunately I tend to visit 20-30 countries a year, often at the drop of a hat, sometimes rerouting as I'm travelling.
When I read news like this, my lousy programming job that pays 80k a years, seems like a total bullshit, compared to this.
What makes me even sadder...... those super novas are so far away, and might have existed even longer than earth and our solar system.
One day, our sun will go up in flame, and not even a trace of our existence will be left behind.
That will happen in about 2-5 biillion years. Even if mankind went extinct today, Voyager 1/2, Pioneer 10/11 and New Horizons will still exist (as well as the third stage booster from New Horizons), and likely continue to exist until the heat death of the universe.
Here in Australia, Apple have completely priced themselves out of the market. ... I just bought the Nexus 5.
iPhone 5S 16 GB: $869
Compared with a brand-spanking-new:
Google Nexus 5 16 GB: $420 (inc. shipping)
It's hard to justify _double_ the price for effectively the same thing.
Needless to say
I buy the thing I knows works and will let me do what I want with minimal of effort. $500 or $1000 for a phone, when my phone bill is $15,000/year? Just like with laptops, I wish I could buy a proper thinkpad, at $3k or $5k, I don't really care. My last t410s physically died after 3 years (screen fell out), so I have a replacement one that I still had in stock. It's the last one though. I'm not looking forward to 2015.
My wife's android phone is crap. I'm sure the nexus is better, but that's enough to put me off android.
iThingys are the same, whether it's on an tablet or a phone, it works. Now I'm not keen on ios7, so I may reconsider an android thingy, but the number of geeks at work that complain about their androids is shocking.
If you'll please pay attention to our safety demonstration and procedures speech...
You mean the one where they explain how to use a seatbelt for everyone who hasn't been in a car in the last 40 years?
You'll notice how the majority of seatbelts in the majority of classes do not act like a car seatbelt. In emergencies, people tend to forget that, and rely on their muscle memory of "push button, seatbelt opens", rather than "lift flap, seatbelt opens"
Now some of us use airline seatbelts more than car seatbelts, so maybe in those cases it could be skipped, but that's a pretty small minority.
Like the war on water, it's largely been about control and government rules abetting private interests. I suppose in this case airlines and the faa and whoever the fuck else stands to make a buck off of this realized it is more profitable to let the monkeys paw their gadgets 100% of the time, instead of the usual 96%.
20 minutes from door close to takeoff, another 5 to 10k feet
10 minutes from 10k feet to landing, another 10 to the terminal
That's about 45 minutes per flight, or a good 15% of even a medium flight. If you're hopping around on short flights over half the flight will be "no electronics", which nowadays means "no books".
If this ruling is applied by the CAA in the UK, I will gain about 50 hours a year of time I can spend reading. That is a massive win.
That's because your phone is too close to the speakers. Someone's phone in row 32 much less row 2 won't give the pilots that RF interference to their headsets.
There's 32 rows?
I don't know what airline YOU fly, but any flight attendant on any flight I've ever been on would make the passenger hang up, and if they refused, they'd call over the sky marshal.
Sky Marshall? What kind of a dictatorship do you live in?
After having lived in Russia for some 6 month cumulatively, I have this to say: Edward Snowden is going to love it.
A few reasons:
- Incredibly beautiful women
- Incredibly cool clubs and bars
- Awesome Moscow Ballet / Classical Music / Cultural Events / Arts / Museums
- McDonalds has a whole wheat bun, need I say more?
It drops to -560 degrees in the winter. He used to live in Hawaii.
"Snowden did transition from a whistle blower to a spy though"
No. He did not.
He was a whistleblower and remains a whistleblower.
He did. Initially the U.S. media were supportive of him as a whistleblower. Their owners and editors then had their briefing, and suddenly actions that were pro-american whistleblowing were anti-american spying.
So yes, he didn't change, but the media's portrayal of him did, and that's what's important.
very exact measurement ... NOT!
It's 1 microfootballfield, or 1/700th of a London bus.
why? These were foreign executives. These were not Americans. There was no treason here. They, and any businesses that they are connected with in ANY FASHION, should simply be denied business licences in America.
But what would happen to all the honest hard-working Americans working for them?
Oh right..
Someone needs to do he calculations for this!
Or we could just use trial an error. It's not like we'll run out of committees
The main issue we've got is the lack of warning we have. Even a year is too late if you want to divert large lumps of rock.
Once you're going to divert something then you have to work out where its going to end up - no point diverting it from the earth this year, to have it end up crashing into something else which ends up sending 100 rocks at us.
Depends on the size, if diverting an extinction causing asteroid now means we have to divert 4 in 100 years, I'll take that.
Because nothing is as effective at deflecting tons of rock coming towards Earth at extremely high speeds as... a committee.
If you fire them out of a barrel fast enough, it might work..
Build an elevated, reinforced concrete shell around it. Have proper sump pumps etc for seepage, have doors you can seal, and bunker down. Build it tough enough and no storm surge will bother it, but you might lose your connectivity to the outside world.
Well you won't get flooded, but a normal data centre on the 17th floor won't get flooded (or if a flood does get 170' above sea level there's bigger problems)
However when you run out of fuel, that's a lot of steps to climb with buckets of fuel.
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/11/se-podcast-36-we-got-hit-by-a-hurricane/