If they had used the real photo on the right, it would be a picture of an American soldier pointing a gun at a man carrying his child.
It takes a severe cluelessness to draw that conclusion. It's obvious in the soldier's stance that he's not pointing anything at anyone, and furthermore, between his uniform, his weapon, and the supplemental information, he is quite clearly British.
if it was indeed a failure of the tiles near the landing gear, the most likely scenario in my mind would be that the heat that got through would have either softened the skeleton and/or cause the tires and possibly hydraulics to burst (or even if they didn't burst, all the extra pressure could have altered the position of the control surfaces), either of which would have had catastrophic effects on the wing. If it either deformed or blew off, the craft would have tumbled to an undesired pitch/attitude and simply broken up under the stress.
The question it seems, after seeing the footage and hearing the data is not whether the tiles failed, but rather how, when, and why, and what subsequent failures took place to reorient the shuttle out of its entry angle.
It's really high tech. You place little magnetic loops and wire coils under several keys (selected by frequency of keypresses and desired brightness of illumination) and as you type, it charges a small capacitor that drives the light.
So, tell me, since it was so easy to fix what was wrong with your life, why didn't you do it five years ago?
Easy. I saw it as part of my life. It (at least to me) hadn't been realized as a problem. I mean, I knew I was socially inept so I simply accepted that I'd probably be playing video games my whole. I knew I was overweight but I expected that at some undetermined time in the future, I would get into shape. To change it, I had to want to. It took several failed relationships and the extremely embarrassing situation of getting fired from a job given to me as a personal favor from a friend.
What would that version of yourself tell you if you ran into him today?
Probably nothing. He didn't get out much.
Kidding aside, I wouldn't tell him anything as that might just cause me to cease being who I am now. Maybe if I hadn't seen the soiled underbelly of existence that I'd fallen into, I wouldn't be as strong as I am today. So I would tell him to be himself and not take anything from anyone. Notice how my previous "advice" is rather vaporous? I didn't intend it as advice. I meant it mostly as a joke, although the circumstances of my own life mentioned are true. The thing is, nobody can give you the answers. You gotta figure them out on your own. But if you keep telling yourself that you can't get past some certain point of your intellectual growth, you never will. You want to know what replaced my previous desires? Nothing. The only that has changed is my response to them. Sheer will alone separate the present me from the past me. An often repeated saying from Mark Twain that is quite relevant here goes a little something like this: The key to a healthy, happy life is moderation in all things, even moderation. I'm sure I've mangled it, but I'm paraphrasing.
Why is any religion not of Christian origin called a "cult"?
This is simply incorrect. Major world religions with some history behind them are not called cults while many sects that have their roots in Christianity are considered cults.
Precisely. I was going to say much the same. Several prominient examples come to mind: Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, People's Temple, 7th Day Adventists, etc., etc., etc. Indeed, I have a hard time not considering mainline Christianity a cult given its preponderance for paganistic virtues, rites, and ideologies.
For someone who has never had to kick a habit, like drugs, drinking, sex, smoking, etc... it's easy to stand there and laugh at those of us who have been there and tell us simply to "stop" or "don't".
ok, then from someone who did simply stop from playing 10-12 hours of video games a day, lingering on messageboards the rest of the time when not in school or at (constantly lost) jobs, and a lifelong overeater who lost 80+pounds last year, and even managed to get laid, STOP! Get over it. Grow up. It's not that big a deal. It's not hard. You just have to wake up. See the light. Examine your own behavior. If it is detriment, just stop it. That's honestly all it takes: a little pragmatism. (Or I suppose given the state of whining from such "addicted" people, it must be a lot)
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I recall from an appendix to 1984 that one of the goals of Newspeak was to eliminate negative words. Thus, since "worse" is a negatively connotated antonym to better, it would have been removed from the language altogether. Further, since "better" is an elevated for of "good," the term to be used would be "plus ungood." (and for the superlative term "worst," it would be doubleplus ungood)
well, it's worth noting in the grandparent poster's defense that to the average yankee geek, the procurement of a second level domain is a matter of filling out an online form and paying a small(ish) annual fee. Even many country codes such as.tv and.cx offer quite a bit of freedom in registering second level domains. I think (and this is my interpretation of the preceding posts) his gripe was that there should have been some mention that obtaining a second second level domain under.nz is like getting one under.uk or.ca or, in other words, quite like getting a new top level domain instated.
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Try redhat 8. With previous incarnations of linux, I felt pretty much the same way. But with nautilus, ximian, and bluecurve, it'll easily pass the mom test. I think you're confusing intuitiveness with familiarity. It's not any harder to use the applications in a modern distribution of linux. In fact, in many cases, it's much easier -- my first RH8 configuration took about 2 hours to be completely ready to use and it was the first time I'd even touched linux in about 18 months whereas it took me about 6 hours to get XP to that point due to both numerous downloads/reboots and the design of the control panel, which is particularly poor in the network settings. With RH8, everything I needed to set was in the installation script and presented as a dialog before the first time I even booted the OS. With XP, I was searching for hours to find the correct dialogues to enter the info to get it online and able to share and receive files.
(B) a technological measure `effectively controls access to a work' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
In layspeak: if something stops you from looking at something without someone's permission, then it 'effectively controls access'.
(and yeah, it may be silly to link to a cartoon, but it raises a VERY good point. The first definition in the two dictionaries at hand right now list something like "in an effective way" as the first (and predominant?) definition of 'effective')
Flat doors actually make very nice tabletops. I got a set of tapered birch legs from Ikea and a particle-core birch veneer door at home depot, trimmed about 16 inches from one end of it, then stained it all a nice light walnut shade, put three coats of varathane on it, and really, it's one of the sturdiest tables I've ever used. The only problems so far have been that my optical mouse doesn't seem to like the polyurethane coating and that the one time I decided to rearrange my furniture, nobody else was around to help me move it and since the leg mounting brackets probably couldn't take the strain from walking it with the computer still on it, I had to clear it off before I could move it.
The article never mentions anyone named Bill Simon. Given that a man by the same name is running for Governor of California and is constantly protrayed by his opponent as a scandalous and shady businessman, the crew of slashdot might just want to be a little more careful about what they allow on the front page. Libel tends to be expensive.
well then skip the M3. Any old 4 banger can get you 0-60 on a typical onramp. If the M Coupe I tried out is any indication, the M3 should have no problem hitting 120 by the time you merge. It's just smooth, quick acceleration all the way up. That coupe was the best any car has ever felt straight off the lot.
he did, albeit fledgingly. By "removing capitalism" from the system, you remove the inherent competition that refines the pool of any professional community. By removing the incentives to do well in an occupation, the members of that occupation stop performing well. Instead, they do just enough to get their cheques and move on to the next job. By granting them the incentives to win and win big, they will methods and styles to win.
crunching some more numbers, assuming that's a 4x burn process, you've spent almost 2 weeks solid JUST burning them. And it would take nearly two months to play the whole thing end to end if they're audio CD's. (likely a year and a half if they're compressed 10:1)
The likely question to arise is "why?" I have no problem with mp3 trading but I am awestruck that someone would exert the effort to collect and compile over 2/3 of a terrabyte of music. It's just mindboggling. I don't mean that negatively; I just find the figures a bit shocking.
a F-16 can perform a flat turn. This is where the aircraft does not bank at all before turning left or right. No, it cannot. The vectored thrust F-22 CAN do somewhat of a flat turn. The engine nozzles turn left or right, causing the nose to move the other direction. A whole lot of other things are going on as well, but that's the basics.
now, I've never flown so I might be totally wrong and be using wrong terminology here, but it seems to me any airplane with one or more vertical stabilizers could perform a flat turn. Don't they usually have control surfaces on the tail(s), and if so, couldn't they be used to change the horizontal attitude and therefore cause a rudmentary equivalent of thrust vectoring?
In other news, Newark International Airport was shut down, because planes create excessive G-Force pressure on take-off. And accelerating your car too quickly? That's a no-no too.
Accelerating at 5.6gs in a car? Yeah, I can see that. If you drove it into a wall.
melodies must also take timing into account. That will add a LOT of variation. Further, the assumption that notes of separate octaves are musically identical is probably not valid. For example, consider the opening of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.
I don't recommend DAP because I've heard it has spyware (never confirmed it just heard it) and, more importantly, I've had people using DAP totally rape the limited amount of bandwidth I have when I serve significantly sized file via http on my cable modem. (one guy getting two files had 8 or 16 concrruent transmission going from me and while his downloads were as efficient as they could possibly be, I had absolutely no connectivity aside from his transfers)
Kinda makes me wonder what ever happened to the idea of sharing.
Cheap distinction. By this token, nobody is productive; miners don't produce anything, they merely haul it out of the ground. Architects are in the same league as engineers.
It's only a cheap distion if you're either indignant or ignorant. Miners have an input (earth) and an output (ore). They produce raw materials for other industries. The only reason I replied in the first place is that you seemed to take personal insult to the statement that our economy is less productive than it once was. That is an empirical fact backed by the science of economics. It's like getting offended if someone tells you an integral is improper. It's not a value statement but rather a strict and specific qualitative observation.
The statement I was arguing was that we're all just media consumers, and that none of us contributes.
Then you should have said that in the first place. It's wrong, btw.
out of curiosity, what sorts of products do you create?
It is true to say that we are less productive. Our economy has been shifting from production and toward engineering and services for the past few decades. By "less productive," an economist would mean that physical goods are not being produced. Mechanization has nearly eliminated the need for agricultural and indstrial labor in the modern world, and when machines can't do the job, we find the cheapest possible human labor in the unindustrialized parts of the world to do it.
For the given example of musicians, they are not productive. They are performers. Whether they perform in front of a live audience or in a studio makes no difference. Same goes for engineers, programmers, and authors. Their work is the service of laying ideas down onto paper. The ideas are NOT products. They are ideas. Products can only be tangible. This is the fundamental lapse in reasoning that has been driving the informational property problems since as far back as Gutenberg's time.
Your calculation assumes 100 people listening continuously to 12 songs an hour, every hour for the last 4 years at $.0007/song/listener. Please give one example of such am Internet radio station.
Or much more realistically, 1000 people listening to 12 songs an hour for about two and a half hours a day. Or twice as many listening tuning in for about 90 minutes while they browse the web in the afternoon or hang out on a chat or game service. The numbers work out just the same, and on the internet, a couple thousand hits a day is hardly anything. It's not a hard figure to accept, even if it is a little bit contrived.
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It takes a severe cluelessness to draw that conclusion. It's obvious in the soldier's stance that he's not pointing anything at anyone, and furthermore, between his uniform, his weapon, and the supplemental information, he is quite clearly British.
if it was indeed a failure of the tiles near the landing gear, the most likely scenario in my mind would be that the heat that got through would have either softened the skeleton and/or cause the tires and possibly hydraulics to burst (or even if they didn't burst, all the extra pressure could have altered the position of the control surfaces), either of which would have had catastrophic effects on the wing. If it either deformed or blew off, the craft would have tumbled to an undesired pitch/attitude and simply broken up under the stress.
The question it seems, after seeing the footage and hearing the data is not whether the tiles failed, but rather how, when, and why, and what subsequent failures took place to reorient the shuttle out of its entry angle.
It's really high tech. You place little magnetic loops and wire coils under several keys (selected by frequency of keypresses and desired brightness of illumination) and as you type, it charges a small capacitor that drives the light.
Oh, and I just made that up.
Easy. I saw it as part of my life. It (at least to me) hadn't been realized as a problem. I mean, I knew I was socially inept so I simply accepted that I'd probably be playing video games my whole. I knew I was overweight but I expected that at some undetermined time in the future, I would get into shape. To change it, I had to want to. It took several failed relationships and the extremely embarrassing situation of getting fired from a job given to me as a personal favor from a friend.
Probably nothing. He didn't get out much.
Kidding aside, I wouldn't tell him anything as that might just cause me to cease being who I am now. Maybe if I hadn't seen the soiled underbelly of existence that I'd fallen into, I wouldn't be as strong as I am today. So I would tell him to be himself and not take anything from anyone. Notice how my previous "advice" is rather vaporous? I didn't intend it as advice. I meant it mostly as a joke, although the circumstances of my own life mentioned are true. The thing is, nobody can give you the answers. You gotta figure them out on your own. But if you keep telling yourself that you can't get past some certain point of your intellectual growth, you never will. You want to know what replaced my previous desires? Nothing. The only that has changed is my response to them. Sheer will alone separate the present me from the past me. An often repeated saying from Mark Twain that is quite relevant here goes a little something like this: The key to a healthy, happy life is moderation in all things, even moderation. I'm sure I've mangled it, but I'm paraphrasing.
Smug? no. Proud. My advice is simplistic purposefully. You don't understand it.
Precisely. I was going to say much the same. Several prominient examples come to mind: Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, People's Temple, 7th Day Adventists, etc., etc., etc. Indeed, I have a hard time not considering mainline Christianity a cult given its preponderance for paganistic virtues, rites, and ideologies.
ok, then from someone who did simply stop from playing 10-12 hours of video games a day, lingering on messageboards the rest of the time when not in school or at (constantly lost) jobs, and a lifelong overeater who lost 80+pounds last year, and even managed to get laid, STOP! Get over it. Grow up. It's not that big a deal. It's not hard. You just have to wake up. See the light. Examine your own behavior. If it is detriment, just stop it. That's honestly all it takes: a little pragmatism. (Or I suppose given the state of whining from such "addicted" people, it must be a lot)
I recall from an appendix to 1984 that one of the goals of Newspeak was to eliminate negative words. Thus, since "worse" is a negatively connotated antonym to better, it would have been removed from the language altogether. Further, since "better" is an elevated for of "good," the term to be used would be "plus ungood." (and for the superlative term "worst," it would be doubleplus ungood)
well, it's worth noting in the grandparent poster's defense that to the average yankee geek, the procurement of a second level domain is a matter of filling out an online form and paying a small(ish) annual fee. Even many country codes such as .tv and .cx offer quite a bit of freedom in registering second level domains. I think (and this is my interpretation of the preceding posts) his gripe was that there should have been some mention that obtaining a second second level domain under .nz is like getting one under .uk or .ca or, in other words, quite like getting a new top level domain instated.
Try redhat 8. With previous incarnations of linux, I felt pretty much the same way. But with nautilus, ximian, and bluecurve, it'll easily pass the mom test. I think you're confusing intuitiveness with familiarity. It's not any harder to use the applications in a modern distribution of linux. In fact, in many cases, it's much easier -- my first RH8 configuration took about 2 hours to be completely ready to use and it was the first time I'd even touched linux in about 18 months whereas it took me about 6 hours to get XP to that point due to both numerous downloads/reboots and the design of the control panel, which is particularly poor in the network settings. With RH8, everything I needed to set was in the installation script and presented as a dialog before the first time I even booted the OS. With XP, I was searching for hours to find the correct dialogues to enter the info to get it online and able to share and receive files.
But what exactly does 'effectively' mean?
(and yeah, it may be silly to link to a cartoon, but it raises a VERY good point. The first definition in the two dictionaries at hand right now list something like "in an effective way" as the first (and predominant?) definition of 'effective')
Flat doors actually make very nice tabletops. I got a set of tapered birch legs from Ikea and a particle-core birch veneer door at home depot, trimmed about 16 inches from one end of it, then stained it all a nice light walnut shade, put three coats of varathane on it, and really, it's one of the sturdiest tables I've ever used. The only problems so far have been that my optical mouse doesn't seem to like the polyurethane coating and that the one time I decided to rearrange my furniture, nobody else was around to help me move it and since the leg mounting brackets probably couldn't take the strain from walking it with the computer still on it, I had to clear it off before I could move it.
The article never mentions anyone named Bill Simon. Given that a man by the same name is running for Governor of California and is constantly protrayed by his opponent as a scandalous and shady businessman, the crew of slashdot might just want to be a little more careful about what they allow on the front page. Libel tends to be expensive.
well then skip the M3. Any old 4 banger can get you 0-60 on a typical onramp. If the M Coupe I tried out is any indication, the M3 should have no problem hitting 120 by the time you merge. It's just smooth, quick acceleration all the way up. That coupe was the best any car has ever felt straight off the lot.
he did, albeit fledgingly. By "removing capitalism" from the system, you remove the inherent competition that refines the pool of any professional community. By removing the incentives to do well in an occupation, the members of that occupation stop performing well. Instead, they do just enough to get their cheques and move on to the next job. By granting them the incentives to win and win big, they will methods and styles to win.
crunching some more numbers, assuming that's a 4x burn process, you've spent almost 2 weeks solid JUST burning them. And it would take nearly two months to play the whole thing end to end if they're audio CD's. (likely a year and a half if they're compressed 10:1)
The likely question to arise is "why?" I have no problem with mp3 trading but I am awestruck that someone would exert the effort to collect and compile over 2/3 of a terrabyte of music. It's just mindboggling. I don't mean that negatively; I just find the figures a bit shocking.
Or around a loop-de-loop.
melodies must also take timing into account. That will add a LOT of variation. Further, the assumption that notes of separate octaves are musically identical is probably not valid. For example, consider the opening of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.
I don't recommend DAP because I've heard it has spyware (never confirmed it just heard it) and, more importantly, I've had people using DAP totally rape the limited amount of bandwidth I have when I serve significantly sized file via http on my cable modem. (one guy getting two files had 8 or 16 concrruent transmission going from me and while his downloads were as efficient as they could possibly be, I had absolutely no connectivity aside from his transfers)
Kinda makes me wonder what ever happened to the idea of sharing.
It's only a cheap distion if you're either indignant or ignorant. Miners have an input (earth) and an output (ore). They produce raw materials for other industries. The only reason I replied in the first place is that you seemed to take personal insult to the statement that our economy is less productive than it once was. That is an empirical fact backed by the science of economics. It's like getting offended if someone tells you an integral is improper. It's not a value statement but rather a strict and specific qualitative observation.
Then you should have said that in the first place. It's wrong, btw.
out of curiosity, what sorts of products do you create?
It is true to say that we are less productive. Our economy has been shifting from production and toward engineering and services for the past few decades. By "less productive," an economist would mean that physical goods are not being produced. Mechanization has nearly eliminated the need for agricultural and indstrial labor in the modern world, and when machines can't do the job, we find the cheapest possible human labor in the unindustrialized parts of the world to do it.
For the given example of musicians, they are not productive. They are performers. Whether they perform in front of a live audience or in a studio makes no difference. Same goes for engineers, programmers, and authors. Their work is the service of laying ideas down onto paper. The ideas are NOT products. They are ideas. Products can only be tangible. This is the fundamental lapse in reasoning that has been driving the informational property problems since as far back as Gutenberg's time.
Hence the joke, to factor a prime, he returns the prime. That's something that really shouldn't require an explanation.
Or much more realistically, 1000 people listening to 12 songs an hour for about two and a half hours a day. Or twice as many listening tuning in for about 90 minutes while they browse the web in the afternoon or hang out on a chat or game service. The numbers work out just the same, and on the internet, a couple thousand hits a day is hardly anything. It's not a hard figure to accept, even if it is a little bit contrived.