Isn't that exactly what a steam engine is supposed to do?
Not quite. Poor seals, inconsistent heating, probably mineral build-up in the boiler, poor maintenance. They're going to need some imps to sort it all out.
I think the son in line for succession has been personally groomed and had his brainwashing ensured by Kim's regime.
If anything, he will try to define himself and his regime with some unspeakable act, which results in the deaths of dozens, if not hundreds, and then blame it all on the US and ROK.
There's a National Geographic documentary you can watch free on Netflix (the Lisa Ling) one that gives a glimpse. Brainwashed citizens, traffic cops directing no traffic, empty roads... etc
People in DPRK live to serve the government. They are effectively peasants and serfs, party members are vassals and the top generals are royalty, with the Kim Jong-il clan as the heriditary monarchy. This state is not communist, it's a throwback to the middle ages, when the King owned all the lands. Other than a little bit of planned economy, it's nothing like communism - because communisn is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
and that these companies are in cohorts to control our viewing
... too bad they're not in cahoots to help improve the use of the English language.
Moot point when you don't even watch TV because it's so awful.
The shame is, with the merger between XM and Sirius, the satellite radio is gravitating toward utter and complete awfulness, too.
Small wonder big media, via the representatives they own in Washington continue to wage war against public broadcasting. Not satisfied with 90% of the market, they want that last morsel, too.
Why don't they just get ILM to make them some new ones?
Pfft. ILM can't do a decent rock to save their lives. Not only does the first one come out with a lot of unknown minerals, except one old salt who hasn't done nowt in years, but the others are spread out over years and years and then there's a big break while the ones they've already made get a bit spiffed up unecessarily, but then the pre-rocks come out and nobody even likes them, including the green one, which everyone says reflects poorly on a certain bit of strata.
Don't even get me started on Dreamworks rocks, they all have to have some stupid blue-white lightning all over them.
If this is a real moon rock someone just threw it away at one point. One person's valuable rock worth millions is another thing you can just pick up outside.
It's all probably very Gary Larson-esque - the fat kid with the crew cut and circular glasses, who cleans up at night, swept them up and put them all in the bin. Nobody likes an untidy lab.
The only Moon rocks I've seen were already cut in very fine slices and placed in plastic holders. So moon "rocks" may be imprecise, Moon Samples is probably better.
This would create a lot of jobs, which to some people are more important than trolling the Inet with Photoshopped pictures of leaders and religious figures.
Most likely jobs in India. Hmm. That's a really interesting scenario, if you think about where it could end up.
They'll indvertantly have accumunated a lot of private info on Indian politicos and the State and accidently exposed it all through a defect in code, which will redirect all Indian FB users to pages of it, but for one day only, until they find the bug and fix it.
in a world where nuclear power plants don't have half-assed security. Call me crazy.
To be effective, regulators must have an adversarial relationship with those they regulate. When that's gone, you get Deepwater Horizon, or Fukishima. I agree Greenpeace shouldn't be doing this kind of thing, but unfortunately they're all we've got since federal regulators crawled into industry's bed. I don't know if the same is true in France, but I'd be surprised it it wasn't.
True. Imagine the consequences if it were some band of ne're do wells who attacked the plant and resulted another Chernobyl, rather than some conscienous-raising protester-activists? May not seem like a good thing on the surface, but considering what they accomplished it needed to be done and exposed the flaw in the system before anything horrible happened.
I don't give up hope that there are people out there who know about the origin of sabotage from reading (p.e. Gibson/Sterling's The Difference Engine) instead of Star Trek marathons.
I had no recollection of Sabotage and the origin of the word being in a Star Trek episode. I knew this from studying French and the little bit of French history where striking workers threw their shoes into machinery to bring the machinery to a halt.
It's the case of a blind dog attempting biting a hand which feeds it, because it can't see that the food doesn't magically appear, but has been delivered by the hand it can smell, and thus growls and snaps at.
I, also, would prefer as much visibility of any of my works as Google could provide. I've certainly bought several books because one search lead to another and suddenly I'm looking at a book I'd never have heard of, but contains some fascinating material relevent to my research. As a result I now have a highly comprehensive knowledge of various events in history and a library of books which overflows my shelves. Good thing these people are trying to fight it, I don't know where I'd put more books.:-\
Funnily enough, the whole tongue-in-cheek thing was started by a frenchman I forget the exact details, but he was sarcastically complimenting an englishman on his "invention", that the french had actually done years before pressing your tongue lightly against your cheek prevented you from accidentally smiling after making a sarcastic comment
Sabotage is also a French word - throwing shoes into the machinery.
I think that's kind of the point: to get them to secure the place.
Well, yeah. I imagine the head of security has been given quite the dressing down, if not the outright sack. Could have been worse, not just Al Qaeda, but any number of Algerians who disagree with France's intervention in their country's matters could have joined Greenpeace and rather than follow the team to the banner hanging, gone elsewhere to throw the figurative shoe into the works.
There's got to be something more than simply, "Bring me the head of Jean the Activist!"
I have to wonder what sort of spin they would put on it if the alternate heasline outcome happend: Greenpeace Activist Shot While breaking into Nuclear Power Plant?
Why spin it? They'd do well to play it straight - it was unauthorised intrusion into a security area of a nuclear faciltiy. Would have looked very bad for Greenpeace without tarnishing the plant operator or nuclear agency one iota. Sometimes people get completely screwed up and believe they have to spin and hype things, when very little will do quite well. Further, spin and hype tend to cost credibility - at least among jaded cynics like myself.
..."Homer Simpson"? Because it sounds like their plants are run about as well as the one on The Simpsons.
Not Homer, for this one, but Monty Burns - his lack of vision and expenditure on proper staffing levels, properly trained staff and adequate security are secondary to his accumulation of wealth
"What?!? Smithers did a gaggle of unwashed hippies just enter our plant and hang a banner without my approval? Not ehhxcellent.
But I'm not sure that really fits the French in this case. More like blind optimism they have everything under control and nothing could ever go wrong.
And if they'd gotten shot doing this, would they be saying how mean the French are?
The French government has no need to underscore how mean they can be to Greenpeace Ever been in the Paris Metro and see the soldiers with the rifles, just waiting for someone to start some trouble? You'll now see them inside the N-plants. Well played GP.
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"although it sputters, they admit."
Isn't that exactly what a steam engine is supposed to do?
Not quite. Poor seals, inconsistent heating, probably mineral build-up in the boiler, poor maintenance. They're going to need some imps to sort it all out.
What was it Sheldon said on big bang theory, half the size, twice the fun.
Smaller than O-Scale :-|
Smaller than HO-Scale :-|
Even smaller than N-Scale :-\
And smaller than Z-Scale :-/
So it must be .. ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Scale 8-)
I think the son in line for succession has been personally groomed and had his brainwashing ensured by Kim's regime.
If anything, he will try to define himself and his regime with some unspeakable act, which results in the deaths of dozens, if not hundreds, and then blame it all on the US and ROK.
Don't knock the Euro. It won't be long before those bills will be rare and valuable collector's items.
Whoa! Guess I should take them off the toilet roll.
There's a National Geographic documentary you can watch free on Netflix (the Lisa Ling) one that gives a glimpse. Brainwashed citizens, traffic cops directing no traffic, empty roads... etc
People in DPRK live to serve the government. They are effectively peasants and serfs, party members are vassals and the top generals are royalty, with the Kim Jong-il clan as the heriditary monarchy. This state is not communist, it's a throwback to the middle ages, when the King owned all the lands. Other than a little bit of planned economy, it's nothing like communism - because communisn is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
Moot point when you don't even watch TV because it's so awful.
The shame is, with the merger between XM and Sirius, the satellite radio is gravitating toward utter and complete awfulness, too.
Small wonder big media, via the representatives they own in Washington continue to wage war against public broadcasting. Not satisfied with 90% of the market, they want that last morsel, too.
Why not bore holes along the US/Mex border, about 50 ft deep, drop in some TNT and break up the rock?
You can't dig a tunnel through sand.
Seems some seismic listening devices could be used, as well, to identify tunneling activity.
what it called 'psychological warfare.'
Big words for a country that built an entire town on their side of the border, just for propaganda.
Yeah, well think about it. The government of North Korea is such an evil bunch of feckwits they can't even get coal for Christmas.
Finally shrug off that horrible regime and look back at history, they're going to be ultra, mega pissed off.
Dear leaders, my arse.
Why don't they just get ILM to make them some new ones?
Pfft. ILM can't do a decent rock to save their lives. Not only does the first one come out with a lot of unknown minerals, except one old salt who hasn't done nowt in years, but the others are spread out over years and years and then there's a big break while the ones they've already made get a bit spiffed up unecessarily, but then the pre-rocks come out and nobody even likes them, including the green one, which everyone says reflects poorly on a certain bit of strata.
Don't even get me started on Dreamworks rocks, they all have to have some stupid blue-white lightning all over them.
Not all were stolen. http://news.yahoo.com/former-resident-sues-claim-alaska-moon-rocks-071955850.html
If this is a real moon rock someone just threw it away at one point. One person's valuable rock worth millions is another thing you can just pick up outside.
It's all probably very Gary Larson-esque - the fat kid with the crew cut and circular glasses, who cleans up at night, swept them up and put them all in the bin. Nobody likes an untidy lab.
The only Moon rocks I've seen were already cut in very fine slices and placed in plastic holders. So moon "rocks" may be imprecise, Moon Samples is probably better.
and C#
And something client side. Something better than Javascript.
Algol for Web, COBOL beans, Object Oriented PL/1 ...
This would create a lot of jobs, which to some people are more important than trolling the Inet with Photoshopped pictures of leaders and religious figures.
Most likely jobs in India. Hmm. That's a really interesting scenario, if you think about where it could end up.
They'll indvertantly have accumunated a lot of private info on Indian politicos and the State and accidently exposed it all through a defect in code, which will redirect all Indian FB users to pages of it, but for one day only, until they find the bug and fix it.
So there :P
That's about all that needs be said.
They had a good run, but they are a commodity PC maker and that's about all.
in a world where nuclear power plants don't have half-assed security. Call me crazy.
To be effective, regulators must have an adversarial relationship with those they regulate. When that's gone, you get Deepwater Horizon, or Fukishima. I agree Greenpeace shouldn't be doing this kind of thing, but unfortunately they're all we've got since federal regulators crawled into industry's bed. I don't know if the same is true in France, but I'd be surprised it it wasn't.
True. Imagine the consequences if it were some band of ne're do wells who attacked the plant and resulted another Chernobyl, rather than some conscienous-raising protester-activists? May not seem like a good thing on the surface, but considering what they accomplished it needed to be done and exposed the flaw in the system before anything horrible happened.
I don't give up hope that there are people out there who know about the origin of sabotage from reading (p.e. Gibson/Sterling's The Difference Engine) instead of Star Trek marathons.
I had no recollection of Sabotage and the origin of the word being in a Star Trek episode. I knew this from studying French and the little bit of French history where striking workers threw their shoes into machinery to bring the machinery to a halt.
It's the case of a blind dog attempting biting a hand which feeds it, because it can't see that the food doesn't magically appear, but has been delivered by the hand it can smell, and thus growls and snaps at.
I, also, would prefer as much visibility of any of my works as Google could provide. I've certainly bought several books because one search lead to another and suddenly I'm looking at a book I'd never have heard of, but contains some fascinating material relevent to my research. As a result I now have a highly comprehensive knowledge of various events in history and a library of books which overflows my shelves. Good thing these people are trying to fight it, I don't know where I'd put more books. :-\
Funnily enough, the whole tongue-in-cheek thing was started by a frenchman
I forget the exact details, but he was sarcastically complimenting an englishman on his "invention", that the french had actually done years before
pressing your tongue lightly against your cheek prevented you from accidentally smiling after making a sarcastic comment
Sabotage is also a French word - throwing shoes into the machinery.
I think that's kind of the point: to get them to secure the place.
Well, yeah. I imagine the head of security has been given quite the dressing down, if not the outright sack. Could have been worse, not just Al Qaeda, but any number of Algerians who disagree with France's intervention in their country's matters could have joined Greenpeace and rather than follow the team to the banner hanging, gone elsewhere to throw the figurative shoe into the works.
There's got to be something more than simply, "Bring me the head of Jean the Activist!"
I have to wonder what sort of spin they would put on it if the alternate heasline outcome happend: Greenpeace Activist Shot While breaking into Nuclear Power Plant?
Why spin it? They'd do well to play it straight - it was unauthorised intrusion into a security area of a nuclear faciltiy. Would have looked very bad for Greenpeace without tarnishing the plant operator or nuclear agency one iota. Sometimes people get completely screwed up and believe they have to spin and hype things, when very little will do quite well. Further, spin and hype tend to cost credibility - at least among jaded cynics like myself.
..."Homer Simpson"? Because it sounds like their plants are run about as well as the one on The Simpsons.
Not Homer, for this one, but Monty Burns - his lack of vision and expenditure on proper staffing levels, properly trained staff and adequate security are secondary to his accumulation of wealth
"What?!? Smithers did a gaggle of unwashed hippies just enter our plant and hang a banner without my approval? Not ehhxcellent.
But I'm not sure that really fits the French in this case. More like blind optimism they have everything under control and nothing could ever go wrong.
Greenpeace has confirmed time and time again that their activists are insane. Who keeps giving these people money anyway?
People who would rather someone else get their hands dirty or risk their lives, while they go on enjoying a cup of tea and good book of poetry.
Interesting game, isn't it? Not entirely unlike the other side of the coin - Corporations and lawyers.
And if they'd gotten shot doing this, would they be saying how mean the French are?
The French government has no need to underscore how mean they can be to Greenpeace Ever been in the Paris Metro and see the soldiers with the rifles, just waiting for someone to start some trouble? You'll now see them inside the N-plants. Well played GP.