Remember when it was suggested that PS2 components were potentially useful for things like signal processing and realtime navigation? Is anybody still laughing, or does this mean that just maybe that wasn't so hysterical after all?
Seems silly to post at this late date, but I missed these replies before: yes, I have heard of Zororaster -- the faith is alive and well. I'm an atheist, myself, but I was replying to an apparent Christian who was complaining about the scrutiny applied to the bible. I was trying to look at it from his point of view.
Of course, back when they were trying to raise me as a Catholic, Thomas was my favorite apostle.:)
To tell you truth I didn't know a minor could get a checking account. (Speaking of which, have you ever tried to explain the value of savings and compound interest and stuff when your daughter sees that the bank is not only not paying her any interest but is in fact charging her for her savings account?)
No, as age verification they're pretty useless, I agree. If nothing else, all Junior needs is to get a look at Daddy's card and write down the numbers -- unless there's a charge Daddy will never know.
However, useless standards have never stopped our fearless leaders before.
Could have been "I was a Kamikaze", by Nagatsuka. It's out of print, but BookFinder and Alibris both have it, as low as 5 USD
The kamikaze aspect is actually fairly brief -- it's much more about the rest of the war than that. He also describes flying against 29's in a Zeke, which meant flying well above the operational ceiling of the plane and maybe getting in one pass, more to show the Americans that they weren't completely invulnerable than anything else.
I think he might have flown the Tony as well, but I wouldn't swear to it.
Hmmm--been a while. It wasn't an incredibly interesting book, but it was pretty good. It sits well on a shelf next to "Dauntless Hell Divers" and "Baa-baa Black Sheep".
I remember the title being something pretty stupid like, "I Was a Japanse Fighter Pilot".
The title you cite sounds wrong to me, too. Although he was a navy pilot (and apparently the Japanese navy felt about naval aviation the way the Americans do), I don't recall his being assigned to that particular action.
He does describe scoring one kill on a guy who looked back and saw the Zero and promptly rolled over and bailed -- said he wrote it up as "One enemy aircraft scared to death".
If I had to guess, I'd look in the Ballantine catalog. They used to publish a lot of WWII material, back when the kids of my generation were into finding out exactly how our daddies won the war.
I'm pretty sure that my copy was lost a few years ago when I was evicted from an apartment, but I'll keep an eye out.
I was thinking that he might have taught, but did he actually get a chair (or is my idea of "professor" as distinct from "instructor" hopelessly out of date)?
Isn't this one of the mechanisms suggested / required by COPA?
Mind you, I think there's a case to be made that a genuinely mature person might avoid plastic like the plague and always use cash, but that's another story...
I realize that you are an individual with standards of your own, but you've chosen to ally yourself with "good Christians", so I'll ask you to be a spokesman of sorts:
Why should the government be deciding whether you and your children can see naked women on the Internet, and yet shouldn't be deciding whether or not they show naked women in schools?
(Oh, and while we're here, may I point out that over the years there have been any number of scams involving religion, apparently proving the point that religion is bad for everyone. As a matter of fact, when groups of pornographic zealots start a civil war somewhere, or kill themselves and their children with poisoned Kool-Aid, pornographers will have begun to catch up with religion as a force for good).
OTOH, I remember reading the autobiography of a Japanese fighter pilot, one who had started the war in Manchuria and flew until the end (ie, a very good Japanese fighter pilot).
He was assigned to fly a kamakazi mission off Okinawa as the leader of a bunch of kids fresh out of flight school. He describes flying out to the American fleet, looking at it, and turning around.
He wasn't afraid to die, per se, but he valued his skills and it was perfectly obvious that this was a publicity stunt that wasn't going to help anything (and he was right -- if it had any effect, the kamakazi tactic encouraged the idea that the Japanese would fight to the last child, making the atomic bomb look reasonable).
I've heard that some later kamakazi planes were rigged so as to be unable to land. Anybody confirm that? That would tend to indicate that others changed their minds as well.
"It reminds us of how ignorant and gullible the lesser-educated amongst us tend to think."
Whoa, there, cowboy! Don't make the mistake of thinking that education per se alters gullibility or paranoia. The Unabomber, for instance, is a college grad.
Education may provide the tools for useful thought, but there's no guarantee that they'll be used after graduation (or even before).
No, the point is that those BBC broadcasts used to go on all the time, so the Germans couldn't tell which were significant and which were word salad. This avoids the, "Jeez, 300 secret messages tonight -- the invasion is upon us!" analysis. The trick is to babble loudly all the time, whether or not you have anything to say.
Vikings vs. vikings? I'd give it to the Norwegian, if he got there first. Hell, there's a case to be made that he should stop the team from using it -- perhaps he feels that it trivializes his heritage (have you looked at a Cleveland Indians uniform lately?)
.team won't cut it either. There are only so many good team names -- they're starting to use extinct carnivores now -- so conflicts are inevitable.
Do you mean to tell me that you work with an ISP who a) has no AUP in place (or at least none that mentions spam), and b) can't be bothered to work something out, if necessary giving the spammer a fixed IP so that the rest of their customers get some relief?
Run, do not walk, to the nearest exit and find a better provider.
Are gas prices in the States artificially low, or are European prices artificially high? How much of the price is taxation and how much the "natural" (sorry, but I'm looking for the opposite of "artificial") price?
I didn't know that... it's hardly a point in their favor that they are funded by an industry that makes its money from the degredation of women and the moral weakness of men. If they are accepting tainted money then they are inherently tainted, and anyone who supports them is tacitly supporting the degredation of women.
Let's see...my government collects taxes on (is supported by) the trade in booze and cigarettes. Shoot! Now I'll have to do my own thinking, and teach my daughters to think too!
Just when I was hoping to sit back with a smoke and a beer to watch some decent government- run TV -- the Lotto results.
After all, streaming content is broadcasting, which is something that, being of public interest, governments regulate. No, it's not broadcasting. Radio is broadcasting -- it goes in all directions through the common air. The doctrine has been that nobody should own the air, so we should all own the air, with the government representing us. Streaming stuff over a wire is stuff over a wire -- "narrow-casting", perhaps. The wire doesn't go everywhere, and may well be privately owned. It doesn't interfere with other wires, it doesn't pass through anybody's head, it doesn't meet any of the "broadcasting" requirements except that the end result is similar -- moving pictures on a screen, which makes your local cinema a "broadcaster". If you want your government to regulate information flow, fine, but make them say it honestly, not weasel around by misusing terms that appear to give them a precedent.
But it's not true that "someone always does", at least not on any given night (which is how those big jackpots pile up), and when they do hit it's rarely a solo win -- this isn't the office pool, where each number is removed after it's picked.
I used to work for AmTote, and I was always grateful that I was assigned to horse-tracks and not Lotteries. Regular horse players have some clue, and there is in fact a degree of skill involved (just ask the track stewards how they pick the runners).
Once I stopped for a 6-pack after work, and stood in line (another reason to hate lotteries by the way -- the damned lines in understaffed convenience stores while some idiot looks for his list of numbers) behind a guy who wanted a ticket for "000 -- boxed" (for those of you who don't gamble, that means all the possible orderings). Anybody want to say that he knew what he was doing?
I respect any man's right to make his own mistakes, but I resent my state government making me a party to it. What the hell -- let's sell heroin while we're at it -- we can fight organized crime and fund our schools at the same time -- it's a win/win!
the record industry wants us to trade freedom (to copy digital files) for nothing! whereas Napster users want record companies to trade music for nothing. Hmmm...the moral high ground is still pretty low in spots.
Well, partly because there is a difference between a copy and a translation -- the copy may well have transcription errors, but those are likely to be easier to catch than translation problems.
Would you rather have a Xerox of a diagram, or a sketch made from the diagram? Better yet, and more applicable to many religious texts (Biblical or otherwise), a sketch made from a description given by somebody who saw the diagram when he was a young man?
Lastly, of course, one might argue that the relative importance of the works calls for different standards. My feeling is that if Archimedes had never lived, somebody else would have come up with his work. Would you say that of Christ?
Well, that's true. OTOH, a microbe that survived launch and months (years, whatever) of vaccuum, radiation, etc., would not be a creampuff. The Europan environment is different from Baltimore, it's true (although right now we're feeling sort of humid and Jovian around here), but it might be less different from the environment in space, and any life on a probe has already demonstrated an ability to survive that.
In short, I'd figure we'd be exporting our meanest, toughest, and most adaptable critters (not unlike Australia's earliest English colonists, come to think of it).
. If they went ahead and told them straight out that they can't measure their heart beat, the astronauts may panic unnecessarily.
Jeez, you don't think much of astronauts, do you? I mean, I'm a fortyone-year-old lifelong coward with no more right stuff than my daughter's panda, but if the doctor tells me that he can't read my heart beat I'm not going to figure my heart has stopped. I'd put it down to a minor equipment failure and be grateful that the sensor up my rectum isn't overheating.
"Ah, Michael, we're having trouble with the coffee machine in the lobby right now, so..."
"OHMYGOD, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
(He flies shuttle into the Sun)
Remember, these guys know that sometimes NASA can't handle the metric system AND THEY GO UP ANYWAY.
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Remember when it was suggested that PS2 components were potentially useful for things like signal processing and realtime navigation? Is anybody still laughing, or does this mean that just maybe that wasn't so hysterical after all?
Of course, back when they were trying to raise me as a Catholic, Thomas was my favorite apostle.:)
No, as age verification they're pretty useless, I agree. If nothing else, all Junior needs is to get a look at Daddy's card and write down the numbers -- unless there's a charge Daddy will never know.
However, useless standards have never stopped our fearless leaders before.
The kamikaze aspect is actually fairly brief -- it's much more about the rest of the war than that. He also describes flying against 29's in a Zeke, which meant flying well above the operational ceiling of the plane and maybe getting in one pass, more to show the Americans that they weren't completely invulnerable than anything else.
I think he might have flown the Tony as well, but I wouldn't swear to it.
I remember the title being something pretty stupid like, "I Was a Japanse Fighter Pilot".
The title you cite sounds wrong to me, too. Although he was a navy pilot (and apparently the Japanese navy felt about naval aviation the way the Americans do), I don't recall his being assigned to that particular action.
He does describe scoring one kill on a guy who looked back and saw the Zero and promptly rolled over and bailed -- said he wrote it up as "One enemy aircraft scared to death".
If I had to guess, I'd look in the Ballantine catalog. They used to publish a lot of WWII material, back when the kids of my generation were into finding out exactly how our daddies won the war.
I'm pretty sure that my copy was lost a few years ago when I was evicted from an apartment, but I'll keep an eye out.
I was thinking that he might have taught, but did he actually get a chair (or is my idea of "professor" as distinct from "instructor" hopelessly out of date)?
Mind you, I think there's a case to be made that a genuinely mature person might avoid plastic like the plague and always use cash, but that's another story...
Why should the government be deciding whether you and your children can see naked women on the Internet, and yet shouldn't be deciding whether or not they show naked women in schools?
(Oh, and while we're here, may I point out that over the years there have been any number of scams involving religion, apparently proving the point that religion is bad for everyone. As a matter of fact, when groups of pornographic zealots start a civil war somewhere, or kill themselves and their children with poisoned Kool-Aid, pornographers will have begun to catch up with religion as a force for good).
He was assigned to fly a kamakazi mission off Okinawa as the leader of a bunch of kids fresh out of flight school. He describes flying out to the American fleet, looking at it, and turning around.
He wasn't afraid to die, per se, but he valued his skills and it was perfectly obvious that this was a publicity stunt that wasn't going to help anything (and he was right -- if it had any effect, the kamakazi tactic encouraged the idea that the Japanese would fight to the last child, making the atomic bomb look reasonable).
I've heard that some later kamakazi planes were rigged so as to be unable to land. Anybody confirm that? That would tend to indicate that others changed their minds as well.
Whoa, there, cowboy! Don't make the mistake of thinking that education per se alters gullibility or paranoia. The Unabomber, for instance, is a college grad.
Education may provide the tools for useful thought, but there's no guarantee that they'll be used after graduation (or even before).
What about the Evil Twin episode (or have they already done that?)
No doubt some /. posters could give pointers here.
.team won't cut it either. There are only so many good team names -- they're starting to use extinct carnivores now -- so conflicts are inevitable.
Do you mean to tell me that you work with an ISP who a) has no AUP in place (or at least none that mentions spam), and b) can't be bothered to work something out, if necessary giving the spammer a fixed IP so that the rest of their customers get some relief?
Run, do not walk, to the nearest exit and find a better provider.
By buying a different product from the same people? Where do you figure natural gas comes from?
Are gas prices in the States artificially low, or are European prices artificially high? How much of the price is taxation and how much the "natural" (sorry, but I'm looking for the opposite of "artificial") price?
I didn't know that... it's hardly a point in their favor that they are funded by an industry that makes its money from the degredation of women and the moral weakness of men. If they are accepting tainted money then they are inherently tainted, and anyone who supports them is tacitly supporting the degredation of women.
Let's see...my government collects taxes on (is supported by) the trade in booze and cigarettes. Shoot! Now I'll have to do my own thinking, and teach my daughters to think too!
Just when I was hoping to sit back with a smoke and a beer to watch some decent government- run TV -- the Lotto results.
After all, streaming content is broadcasting, which is something that, being of public interest, governments regulate. No, it's not broadcasting. Radio is broadcasting -- it goes in all directions through the common air. The doctrine has been that nobody should own the air, so we should all own the air, with the government representing us. Streaming stuff over a wire is stuff over a wire -- "narrow-casting", perhaps. The wire doesn't go everywhere, and may well be privately owned. It doesn't interfere with other wires, it doesn't pass through anybody's head, it doesn't meet any of the "broadcasting" requirements except that the end result is similar -- moving pictures on a screen, which makes your local cinema a "broadcaster". If you want your government to regulate information flow, fine, but make them say it honestly, not weasel around by misusing terms that appear to give them a precedent.
But it's not true that "someone always does", at least not on any given night (which is how those big jackpots pile up), and when they do hit it's rarely a solo win -- this isn't the office pool, where each number is removed after it's picked.
I used to work for AmTote, and I was always grateful that I was assigned to horse-tracks and not Lotteries. Regular horse players have some clue, and there is in fact a degree of skill involved (just ask the track stewards how they pick the runners).
Once I stopped for a 6-pack after work, and stood in line (another reason to hate lotteries by the way -- the damned lines in understaffed convenience stores while some idiot looks for his list of numbers) behind a guy who wanted a ticket for "000 -- boxed" (for those of you who don't gamble, that means all the possible orderings). Anybody want to say that he knew what he was doing?
I respect any man's right to make his own mistakes, but I resent my state government making me a party to it. What the hell -- let's sell heroin while we're at it -- we can fight organized crime and fund our schools at the same time -- it's a win/win!
Unless you don't cooperate in going to jail, in which case, they may well opt to blow you up.
the record industry wants us to trade freedom (to copy digital files) for nothing! whereas Napster users want record companies to trade music for nothing. Hmmm...the moral high ground is still pretty low in spots.
FWIW, I've always favored "congresscritter" -- it's equally contemptuous of both (all?) genders.
Well, partly because there is a difference between a copy and a translation -- the copy may well have transcription errors, but those are likely to be easier to catch than translation problems.
Would you rather have a Xerox of a diagram, or a sketch made from the diagram? Better yet, and more applicable to many religious texts (Biblical or otherwise), a sketch made from a description given by somebody who saw the diagram when he was a young man?
Lastly, of course, one might argue that the relative importance of the works calls for different standards. My feeling is that if Archimedes had never lived, somebody else would have come up with his work. Would you say that of Christ?
In short, I'd figure we'd be exporting our meanest, toughest, and most adaptable critters (not unlike Australia's earliest English colonists, come to think of it).
Jeez, you don't think much of astronauts, do you? I mean, I'm a fortyone-year-old lifelong coward with no more right stuff than my daughter's panda, but if the doctor tells me that he can't read my heart beat I'm not going to figure my heart has stopped. I'd put it down to a minor equipment failure and be grateful that the sensor up my rectum isn't overheating.
"Ah, Michael, we're having trouble with the coffee machine in the lobby right now, so..."
"OHMYGOD, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
(He flies shuttle into the Sun)
Remember, these guys know that sometimes NASA can't handle the metric system AND THEY GO UP ANYWAY.