#1) Sue right now, en masse, BEFORE the deadline. It doesn't matter what it's for, but if they get served 50 times a day, they'll get the hint they've pissed off someone.
#2) Sue later, and when you serve them, state in the serving that by accepting this serve, they agree to binding arbitration with an arbitor of your choosing (not theirs) regarding your violation of the law regarding their right to binding arbitration. Regardless of the outcome of the arbitration, your suit still stands unless that becomes a part of the settlement. Oh, but just to be a prick, you could give them less than 24 hours to opt out.
Power Steering is only needed on cars that are Front Wheel Drive, because they are so nose-heavy. Even then the Geo-series of Suzuki-made el-cheapo cars came without power steering and handled well, and they were front wheel drive.
The Tata Nano on the other hand, really doesn't need power steering because the car itself is very light and the engine is in the rear, making the nose of the car very light and easy to turn the wheel.
I heard several years ago that Tata was planning to bring the car to Europe and the US with a bigger engine and safety equipment and the price would be around $8000.
The problem with that is: Nissan has figured out how to do that as well. And they have a dealership network. The Nissan Versa (base price) is about $10,000 -- and I'm sure they could figure out how to make it even cheaper if they were in a race to the bottom. But they aren't. You get a Japanese-quality vehicle for not a lot of money and it'll go on the highway.
Basically, Tata needs to figure out how to get the Nano down to a $6000 pricetag for people to even consider it versus the Versa.
In 2 or 3 years, the Chinese are coming: Their cars are cheap and unsafe, but priced so low that people will buy them anyhow. It will start a race to the bottom, but right now, Nissan has the lead because their car is a good value for the money, and a known name brand.
You should have accepted those donations. That doesn't means you have to listen to whoever is giving you money. In fact, if I was you, I'd take their check, and then do the exact opposite of whatever they are asking for.
Please cut those job-killing regulations of big government. Business can police themselves. If your face is crushed by a defective airbag, people will avoid buying those and the genuine article will rise in the marketplace. That's how capitalism works, build a better mousetrap and all that.
I'm sure Ryan will make some argument like that tomorrow night, After all, he worships Ayn Rand. If you moochers don't appreciate the entrepreneurial effort of job creator and industrialist Sheng Zhuiangh in China, then make your own better airbag and compete.
Don't be ridiculous. Almost every "American" knows that all humanity started with Adam, created by God, in the garden of eden, which, according to a lot of people now, was in the USA. None of this other country bullcrap, God picked America as the chosen land -- I mean, that's why he gave all the oil to Muslims... errr. wait a minute...
Go for it. The Branch Dividians did very well with that. You're living in a police state that pepper sprays peaceful protestors, and zip-ties/handcuffs people so tightly they suffer nerve damage.
The NRA loves to talk about their 2nd amendment rights, but the sad truth is that any militia attempting to overthrow the government to get their country back wouldn't survive even 5 minutes against part-timers in the national guard.
I'm afraid reality is a bit more complex than that -- what's more likely is that the larger Flying Saucer was the initial proposal, and then it was scaled down for a prototype; apparently both projects are called Project 1794, so it's likely the Avrocar was the proof of concept for the larger vehicle which obviously was never built since the Avrocar was such a profound disappointment.
As for "Flying Wings", Jack Northrop built a flying wing bomber for the air force in the 50's Footage of it flying is even used in the classic George Pal "War of the Worlds" feature film where they drop a nuke on the Martians but do no damage. Again, the TV show "Wings" covered it in great detail, it originally used pusher props, and was later converted to jet engines.
So, flying wings are no big secret, the only advantage the B2 has over the original design is the RAM (Radar Absorbing Material) and that it's fin-less (Jack's design had small vertical stabilizers), and that the engines are embedded to avoid heat-seekers.
I think the only "airplane" secret that the military has at this point is the Aurora, which should be declassified, since it was obviously retired over a decade ago. I think they experimented with pulse-detonation propulsion, but it wasn't deemed satisfactory.
Are for the Flying Saucers, remember that the Military was obsessed with the "flying soldier" concept. Millions were spent developing the Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket Belt (Bell), and then later the jet-propelled "platform", and the Avrocar. But what happened was the Military was considerably more pragmatic than most of us were willing to believe, because what they ultimately ended up with was the helicopter. The Bell Huey was the end of the Flying Soldier program.
Are you as surprised as the rest of us that corporations worth billions of dollars are now dependent upon an operating system developed by a Finnish hacker as a school project?
Holy crap, Slashdot just fell off the deep end. Seriously, "News for Nerds", but edited by people that have never once watched the Discovery Channel? How the holy frack did this ever make the front page?
I'm sure some other bright-eyed individual has already mentioned it, but this "secret" project is called the AvroCar, and it's been declassified for at least 3 decades.
When Discovery Channel used to run a show called "Wings" (the is before there was a Wings Channel, which is now called the Military Channel), and the show was composed entirely of Public Domain file footage, they covered the Avrocar in great detail. It was a saucer that used a jet driven impeller to run the vehicle.
Its "on-paper" specs were all that you quoted in the summary, but the reality was, it never got more than a few feet off the ground. It was completely impractical and was scrapped.
Pretty damn sure there's a Wikipedia article, but it's all over the internet in other ways.
Dear Slashdot, please vet your articles. It would be nice if whoever is running this place were an actual geek. Otherwise we're bound to get news for nerds that sounds like a Billy Mays commercial "Wow, new chemical compound removes even the toughest stains!"
By such a law. Can we jail the lawmakers who passed this?
I mean seriously; wouldn't a law like this make 'Honey Boo-Boo' a crime punishable by death in the UK? I mean, if we're going to base a law on what's 'offensive', I'd start with Kim Kardashian, and work my way down to every reality TV "star"....
If I go out into the woods, find a good dead branch to whittle, and carve out the major components of a gun, that's somehow illegal?
And the manufacturer of my whittling knife can take my knife away? Or the government can ban dead branches?
And before you all say "impossible", Mythbusters built a cannon entirely out of wood, so, it is theoretically possible, but possibly not practical -- but that's not the point -- if it becomes functional, it's a gun.
At what point does it stop being "whittling" and become "illegal manufacture of firearms"? This is exactly the case that will be argued when this goes to trial, since someone will eventually sue.
Dear Woz;
I continuously lament that today's bloated operating systems actually make computers today far slower than they used to be. Since programmers no longer hand-optimize, and don't use assembly, modern software crawls and is huge/slow to load, even from the fastest hard-drives.
I remember the Apple ][e booted in about 1 second, and furthermore, could load applications from floppy extremely quickly (mostly due to your hardware optimization). I later purchased a SCSI card and a 30MB harddrive for the ][e -- and with that, the machine was even faster! Applications loaded in the blink of an eye. You hadn't even finished lifting your finger from the return key and the program was loaded and running!
Meanwhile the boot-time for my 8-core laptop at work running Windows XP is soul-crushing (at least 15 minutes), and even after logging in, it's still another 10 minutes before the machine settles down and you can actually USE it.
As a result, I feel more productive on an Apple ][e because I can get work done faster, than I can on the laptop at work (I wish they'd allow me to bring in my ][e to log into the mainframe!).
Anyhow; the question is: Have you experienced this? Do you feel there's more wait time to get started working using modern PCs with modern operating systems -- have we given up making things work properly and quickly, are we too dependent upon CPU core speed and then bogging it down with crapware? After all the work you did to make the Apple ][ blindingly fast, do you think that's somehow a lost art?
So, Republicans are so accustomed to blocking or voting down bills in the house that they have ended this bill that they themselves have started. How ironic.
Yeah, yeah yeah, we've heard this a million times before. I seem to recall an invention that was going to change the world that "cities were going to be built around this", and it was going to be so revolutionary that we'd forever alter the way we interact with others.
So did paperback books, the sony walkman, etc., just because something's cool now doesn't mean it'll be cool in 10 years. I mean, do you see anyone wearing leg warmers anymore?
Communicators: DUH! Motorola even named the first Flip-phone the "Star Tac" -- how did the author miss this OBVIOUS one?
Bluetooth headsets: See those chrome things coming out of everyone's ears on TOS?
3.5" Floppies: Pretty much the EXACT same form factor, and painted as brightly as the "rainbow assortment" of disks I used to buy a Staples. They were called Tapes in TOS, but they fed into a slot and appeared to work exactly the same way.
A Space Vehicle named Enterprise : ok, this one is reaching a bit since that Shuttle never went into space, and this is a case of life imitating art, but still.... it's worth noting.
iPads -- tablets: TNG had the PADD, which tied into the LCARS system. Even before then Kirk in TOS was seen holding some kind of electronic clipboard, although it was never really shown on camera as the tech didn't exist back then to even fake a tablet, but the idea was clearly getting there.
If NASA thinks they are going to have a heavy-lift rocket, or even a manned space program, ever again, they obviously have not been reading the newspapers. For the next decade at least, they aren't going to do anything beyond a few GPS and communications satellites. And Elon Musk is going to grab most of that business. Joyrides are being handled by two other companies and the Russians are providing the lifts to the ISS, until that too, is deorbited for lack of funds.
Short of a "Pearl Harbor" style incident that forces us back into space in a big way (say, the Chinese land on the moon, or a chunk of falling rock wipes out LA), the government is as committed to NASA as the average Slashdotter is committed to becoming the Pope.
But I trust the hacker group more than I trust the FBI.
It's more likely the FBI is lying to cover up something. I mean, we're talking about the *government* -- not exactly our best and brightest, but definitely good at the "cover your ass" game.
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#1) Sue right now, en masse, BEFORE the deadline. It doesn't matter what it's for, but if they get served 50 times a day, they'll get the hint they've pissed off someone.
#2) Sue later, and when you serve them, state in the serving that by accepting this serve, they agree to binding arbitration with an arbitor of your choosing (not theirs) regarding your violation of the law regarding their right to binding arbitration. Regardless of the outcome of the arbitration, your suit still stands unless that becomes a part of the settlement. Oh, but just to be a prick, you could give them less than 24 hours to opt out.
Power Steering is only needed on cars that are Front Wheel Drive, because they are so nose-heavy. Even then the Geo-series of Suzuki-made el-cheapo cars came without power steering and handled well, and they were front wheel drive.
The Tata Nano on the other hand, really doesn't need power steering because the car itself is very light and the engine is in the rear, making the nose of the car very light and easy to turn the wheel.
I heard several years ago that Tata was planning to bring the car to Europe and the US with a bigger engine and safety equipment and the price would be around $8000.
The problem with that is: Nissan has figured out how to do that as well. And they have a dealership network. The Nissan Versa (base price) is about $10,000 -- and I'm sure they could figure out how to make it even cheaper if they were in a race to the bottom. But they aren't. You get a Japanese-quality vehicle for not a lot of money and it'll go on the highway.
Basically, Tata needs to figure out how to get the Nano down to a $6000 pricetag for people to even consider it versus the Versa.
In 2 or 3 years, the Chinese are coming: Their cars are cheap and unsafe, but priced so low that people will buy them anyhow. It will start a race to the bottom, but right now, Nissan has the lead because their car is a good value for the money, and a known name brand.
Don't be silly. According to Romney, you can borrow money from your parents. Or roll down the window on a airplane, I forget which.
You should have accepted those donations. That doesn't means you have to listen to whoever is giving you money. In fact, if I was you, I'd take their check, and then do the exact opposite of whatever they are asking for.
Please cut those job-killing regulations of big government. Business can police themselves. If your face is crushed by a defective airbag, people will avoid buying those and the genuine article will rise in the marketplace. That's how capitalism works, build a better mousetrap and all that.
I'm sure Ryan will make some argument like that tomorrow night, After all, he worships Ayn Rand. If you moochers don't appreciate the entrepreneurial effort of job creator and industrialist Sheng Zhuiangh in China, then make your own better airbag and compete.
Don't be ridiculous. Almost every "American" knows that all humanity started with Adam, created by God, in the garden of eden, which, according to a lot of people now, was in the USA. None of this other country bullcrap, God picked America as the chosen land -- I mean, that's why he gave all the oil to Muslims... errr. wait a minute...
Go for it. The Branch Dividians did very well with that. You're living in a police state that pepper sprays peaceful protestors, and zip-ties/handcuffs people so tightly they suffer nerve damage.
The NRA loves to talk about their 2nd amendment rights, but the sad truth is that any militia attempting to overthrow the government to get their country back wouldn't survive even 5 minutes against part-timers in the national guard.
I'm afraid reality is a bit more complex than that -- what's more likely is that the larger Flying Saucer was the initial proposal, and then it was scaled down for a prototype; apparently both projects are called Project 1794, so it's likely the Avrocar was the proof of concept for the larger vehicle which obviously was never built since the Avrocar was such a profound disappointment.
As for "Flying Wings", Jack Northrop built a flying wing bomber for the air force in the 50's Footage of it flying is even used in the classic George Pal "War of the Worlds" feature film where they drop a nuke on the Martians but do no damage. Again, the TV show "Wings" covered it in great detail, it originally used pusher props, and was later converted to jet engines.
So, flying wings are no big secret, the only advantage the B2 has over the original design is the RAM (Radar Absorbing Material) and that it's fin-less (Jack's design had small vertical stabilizers), and that the engines are embedded to avoid heat-seekers.
I think the only "airplane" secret that the military has at this point is the Aurora, which should be declassified, since it was obviously retired over a decade ago. I think they experimented with pulse-detonation propulsion, but it wasn't deemed satisfactory.
Are for the Flying Saucers, remember that the Military was obsessed with the "flying soldier" concept. Millions were spent developing the Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket Belt (Bell), and then later the jet-propelled "platform", and the Avrocar. But what happened was the Military was considerably more pragmatic than most of us were willing to believe, because what they ultimately ended up with was the helicopter. The Bell Huey was the end of the Flying Soldier program.
Are you as surprised as the rest of us that corporations worth billions of dollars are now dependent upon an operating system developed by a Finnish hacker as a school project?
Holy crap, Slashdot just fell off the deep end. Seriously, "News for Nerds", but edited by people that have never once watched the Discovery Channel? How the holy frack did this ever make the front page?
I'm sure some other bright-eyed individual has already mentioned it, but this "secret" project is called the AvroCar, and it's been declassified for at least 3 decades.
When Discovery Channel used to run a show called "Wings" (the is before there was a Wings Channel, which is now called the Military Channel), and the show was composed entirely of Public Domain file footage, they covered the Avrocar in great detail. It was a saucer that used a jet driven impeller to run the vehicle.
Its "on-paper" specs were all that you quoted in the summary, but the reality was, it never got more than a few feet off the ground. It was completely impractical and was scrapped.
Pretty damn sure there's a Wikipedia article, but it's all over the internet in other ways.
Dear Slashdot, please vet your articles. It would be nice if whoever is running this place were an actual geek. Otherwise we're bound to get news for nerds that sounds like a Billy Mays commercial "Wow, new chemical compound removes even the toughest stains!"
Meh!
By such a law.
Can we jail the lawmakers who passed this?
I mean seriously; wouldn't a law like this make 'Honey Boo-Boo' a crime punishable by death in the UK? I mean, if we're going to base a law on what's 'offensive', I'd start with Kim Kardashian, and work my way down to every reality TV "star"....
I agree, "make sexbots, not war!"
So, lemme get this straight....
If I go out into the woods, find a good dead branch to whittle, and carve out the major components of a gun, that's somehow illegal?
And the manufacturer of my whittling knife can take my knife away? Or the government can ban dead branches?
And before you all say "impossible", Mythbusters built a cannon entirely out of wood, so, it is theoretically possible, but possibly not practical -- but that's not the point -- if it becomes functional, it's a gun.
At what point does it stop being "whittling" and become "illegal manufacture of firearms"? This is exactly the case that will be argued when this goes to trial, since someone will eventually sue.
Dear Woz;
I continuously lament that today's bloated operating systems actually make computers today far slower than they used to be. Since programmers no longer hand-optimize, and don't use assembly, modern software crawls and is huge/slow to load, even from the fastest hard-drives.
I remember the Apple ][e booted in about 1 second, and furthermore, could load applications from floppy extremely quickly (mostly due to your hardware optimization). I later purchased a SCSI card and a 30MB harddrive for the ][e -- and with that, the machine was even faster! Applications loaded in the blink of an eye. You hadn't even finished lifting your finger from the return key and the program was loaded and running!
Meanwhile the boot-time for my 8-core laptop at work running Windows XP is soul-crushing (at least 15 minutes), and even after logging in, it's still another 10 minutes before the machine settles down and you can actually USE it.
As a result, I feel more productive on an Apple ][e because I can get work done faster, than I can on the laptop at work (I wish they'd allow me to bring in my ][e to log into the mainframe!).
Anyhow; the question is: Have you experienced this? Do you feel there's more wait time to get started working using modern PCs with modern operating systems -- have we given up making things work properly and quickly, are we too dependent upon CPU core speed and then bogging it down with crapware? After all the work you did to make the Apple ][ blindingly fast, do you think that's somehow a lost art?
So, Republicans are so accustomed to blocking or voting down bills in the house that they have ended this bill that they themselves have started. How ironic.
Yeah, yeah yeah, we've heard this a million times before. I seem to recall an invention that was going to change the world that "cities were going to be built around this", and it was going to be so revolutionary that we'd forever alter the way we interact with others.
So did paperback books, the sony walkman, etc., just because something's cool now doesn't mean it'll be cool in 10 years. I mean, do you see anyone wearing leg warmers anymore?
I mean, how many Libraries of Congress is this new measurement?
Communicators: DUH! Motorola even named the first Flip-phone the "Star Tac" -- how did the author miss this OBVIOUS one?
Bluetooth headsets: See those chrome things coming out of everyone's ears on TOS?
3.5" Floppies: Pretty much the EXACT same form factor, and painted as brightly as the "rainbow assortment" of disks I used to buy a Staples. They were called Tapes in TOS, but they fed into a slot and appeared to work exactly the same way.
A Space Vehicle named Enterprise : ok, this one is reaching a bit since that Shuttle never went into space, and this is a case of life imitating art, but still.... it's worth noting.
iPads -- tablets: TNG had the PADD, which tied into the LCARS system. Even before then Kirk in TOS was seen holding some kind of electronic clipboard, although it was never really shown on camera as the tech didn't exist back then to even fake a tablet, but the idea was clearly getting there.
Now, if only it could cook....
Don't be ridiculous. It's only voter fraud if he's a MINORITY.
Physics.
It has brakes because with that much mass, an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest.
If NASA thinks they are going to have a heavy-lift rocket, or even a manned space program, ever again, they obviously have not been reading the newspapers. For the next decade at least, they aren't going to do anything beyond a few GPS and communications satellites. And Elon Musk is going to grab most of that business. Joyrides are being handled by two other companies and the Russians are providing the lifts to the ISS, until that too, is deorbited for lack of funds.
Short of a "Pearl Harbor" style incident that forces us back into space in a big way (say, the Chinese land on the moon, or a chunk of falling rock wipes out LA), the government is as committed to NASA as the average Slashdotter is committed to becoming the Pope.
But I trust the hacker group more than I trust the FBI.
It's more likely the FBI is lying to cover up something. I mean, we're talking about the *government* -- not exactly our best and brightest, but definitely good at the "cover your ass" game.
On the first day of christmas my true love gave to me.... ....
A beer
in a tree.
On the second day of christmas my true love gave to me.... ....
1000 gallons of Maple syrup.
and a beer
in a tree.