Further explication: it is not the "up" that makes you weightless in orbit, it is the "sideways". You have to be going around the earth very fast to maintain orbit, otherwise you just fall right back down. The "very fast" part is "very expensive". Of course you could continue with "straight up" until earth's gravity no longer dominates and obtain weightlessness, but that's a really, really expensive proposition.
Senators? Elementary School Teachers? Yeah, those were joy-rides done as publicity stunts.
Interesting aside, Nova had a great episode about the space spy business. Did you know that the Soviets had a manned space station in the 70's that served as a spy station? Neither did I. During the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission we were told that the Soviets lacked the ability to do the maneuvering necessary to dock in orbit, so the Apollo capsule would have to do all the maneuvering. Turns out that was all bullshit to cover the fact that they already had a manned space station in orbit.
Ask me what has been my most fortunate experience of the past two decades, and I’d say it was gaining the selfless love of my wife, Liu Xia. She cannot be present in the courtroom today, but I still want to tell you, my sweetheart, that I'm confident that your love for me will be as always. Over the years, in my non-free life, our love has contained bitterness imposed by the external environment, but is boundless in afterthought. I am sentenced to a visible prison while you are waiting in an invisible one. Your love is sunlight that transcends prison walls and bars, stroking every inch of my skin, warming my every cell, letting me maintain my inner calm, magnanimous and bright, so that every minute in prison is full of meaning. But my love for you is full of guilt and regret, sometimes heavy enough hobble my steps. I am a hard stone in the wilderness, putting up with the pummeling of raging storms, and too cold for anyone to dare touch. But my love is hard, sharp, and can penetrate any obstacles. Even if I am crushed into powder, I will embrace you with the ashes....
More quotes and commentary can be found here. I think the Nobel committee may have accidentally found a worthy peace prize recipient for a change.
The sales figures for blu-ray seem to indicate otherwise. Sales are up over 68% year over year, marketshare has nearly doubled year over year (2009 to 1020).
Of course there are dynamics at work outside of the straight consumer choice angle. There is the control afforded the media companies via downloadable media to consider as well. That may be what these guys are relying on for their opinion. The question then is whether the sheep are willing to follow where they are being led.
Or better yet, what a wonderful way to discover that being up at 35,000 feet induces uncontrolled sphincter contractions.
Actually, anything above about 3,500-4,000 feet doesn't feel high anymore. Everything is so small and far away that it becomes just background. During freefall skydiving from 15k down to 3.5k everything is just "really effin' far". At about 3.5k things start to change and you get a sense of the earth approaching from below. Suddenly you are "up high" whereas above this level you are just flying in open space with no real sense of distance or motion.
So with that in mind I could see agoraphobia being a big problem with truly transparent 360 degree views, much more so than acrophobia.
I think they've found it in a fairly thick layer of oily sediment on the ocean floor. Here's the first example I could find. Nice pics of oily goodness covering the sea floor. Apparently there's a nice layer of freshly dead marine life just below the layer too.
I too am a PS3 owner and I have the same question. The answer to our question is found in the games. Are there games for the PS3 that use the new controller? Are there games for the Wii that use the motion control? Ok then, there's the answer.
I still don't have any good 6-axis games for my PS3, despite the reasonably high quality of this controller.
"Even if the baker has no more croissants, will the system with the trademark penguin almost made responsible Bader resulted in this conversation continues," the newspaper quoted the person responsible for the migration.
I don't think you can blame linux for this one. If that's the closest the CIO can come to a coherent thought, they had no chance. In fact, they probably should sack the person responsible for hiring the CIO. They would have been better off hiring a bunch of llamas.
But because I really wanted to work on the flying Car, I left Hughes Aircraft Company to work for Moller International as Chief Engineer in charge of the Flight Control System design of the (M200, M400 and Aerobot) Vertical Take-Off and Landing and “Flying Car” aircrafts.
To show it off you can take a tip from the NAP of the Americas. They have a large conference room immediately behind the operations center with the adjoining wall being entirely "snap glass" lcd panels. Super-cool effect for showing off the ops center with all of its high-tech video monitoring equipment. Touch a panel on the wall and the fourth wall of the room immediately becomes clear to show the ops center with all of the cool network traffic monitors, etc. Touch it again and the wall goes white.
FWIW, I highly recommend taking the tour there. Standing next to the pair of terabit routers that feed the root servers for ICAAN and Verisign is pretty cool. They don't really look any different than any other large router chassis, but c'mon, it is a terabit router at the top of the internet. Ok, maybe you have to be a nerd to appreciate that... Even more geek-cool is the "data exchange" where you can get on to the Internet at full wire speed for cheap. Just toss a cat-6 cable over the wall and plug in to the routers: boom, gigabit connection right into the backbone of the Internet. Pretty much every major and minor Internet provider has a presence in the exchange, and they have zero last-mile costs so you get really competitive pricing. And since all of the undersea cables terminate there, you are basically one hop away from most of South America and several places in Europe. It is pretty cool to see a route trace that shows 3 hops between you and a server on another continent. Or to ping any major search engine and get sub-millisecond ping times (because that's one of their server farms, right down the hall there...).
To the conspiracy theorists this sounds exactly like a warning shot. "Keep it up and we'll actually bring charges and make them stick."
Of course, that's the nice thing about conspiracy theories. They are devilishly difficult to disprove, and quite easy to propagate with confirmation bias.
Taking the absolute numbers really gives us ground for comparison. With a population of nearly 9 million, Rwanda is slightly more populous than New York, the largest city in the US. From the fine article, Rwanda is building to a total generation capacity of 150MW. The city of New York is one of the most energy efficient in the US, probably due to climate and housing density.
Even so, when the air conditioners kick in during the summer they can use 6.9 million megawatt hours in a single month.
The takehome for me was the amazing measure of just how small the Rwandan economy is - a single smallish power plant can supply a third of the country's power needs. That's a pretty good measure of how "third" the third world can be. The tiny town of Lake Worth Florida is considering adding 90 MW of capacity to their city run utility's power plant. Compare that with the planned 50MW capacity for the Rwanda plant. Simple math tells me that they plan for 150MW to cover the entire country in two years. Compared with one small town in Florida. And calling Lake Worth a town is generous. It is only a couple of miles long and wide - really more of a suburb of West Palm Beach. Which is sad in its own right - a suburb of a suburb of somebody's second home. (West Palm Beach services Palm Beach, where all of the rich folks have their second or third homes).
In Colorado we have a prosecutor explaining away a DNA exclusion in the case of molestation of an 8 year old because "Depending on how long she had been wearing those panties and where, they could have rubbed up against the back of her chair at school, a restaurant, the couch at home that someone else had been sitting on, a bus seat, someone's toilet seat if she did not pull them down far enough — there are many ways to get unknown DNA on clothing. "
Still thinking this is an isolated incident? Don't believe there could be more than one prosecutor out there who would believe that an 8 year old got semen on her privates accidentally? Here's an Illinois prosecutor who refuses to believe a DNA exoneration. He actually claims that the semen that was found in the mouth, vagina and rectum of the 8 year old murder victim "must have found its way into the girl’s body while she was playing in a patch of woods where teenagers were known to have sex."
Uhm, do you have any idea what that "anarchy" word in your handle means? Or do you just like sounding "edgy"? Your comment basically reinforces his critique exactly: you clearly support mob rule. If "most people" don't like what a "few individuals" are doing, fuck 'em! We'll just confiscate their crap!
Do you feel the same way about non-economic issues of personal freedom, or is it just in the realm of money? If "most people" don't like the fact that I'm gay, can they just put us "few individual" gay people in the gas chamber for violating the social contract? Too extreme an example? Ok, what if they don't just exterminate sexual deviants - what if they instead use chemical or surgical means to enforce conformity with the social contract... that OK with you?
What about freedom of thought? If "most people" don't like the fact that I'm a vegan pagan who worships Baal, can they just ban that? Can they enforce the government mandated food pyramid on me and force me to get 20% of my calories from meat protein, even though Lord Baal has decreed this a sacrilege?
Look, the examples you are talking about are only even arguably "at the expense of everyone else" because of government mandated restrictions. Let's talk about something a little more obvious - how about movies? Michael Moore makes millions and millions of dollars for his movies... He's every bit as rich as any of those evil large mega telecommunications corporation executives. Actually, much, much richer than most of them. Every dollar he has was given to him in a voluntary exchange for the opportunity to view his film. Do you think he's enriched himself massively at the expense of everyone else? How so? (or why not?) His ethics are certainly much more questionable than Comcast. After all, Comcast doesn't ambush people and attempt to humiliate them on a worldwide stage for profit. They just pass along some data - worst you could say is they sometimes have crappy service. That's hardly in the same ballpark ethically.
OK, so you think Michael Moore is an ethical douche and deserves to have "most people" confiscate his crap too. What about John Lassiter? He made Toy Story, among others. I really enjoyed that movie. You can't really say he was unethical in making a cute little movie. He got stinking rich off of a whole bunch of people plunking down five bucks to see his little cartoon. Exactly how did he violate the social contract at the expense of everyone else?
You don't have to go any farther than that. There is no reason you can stick behind "because" that makes it OK. You might have 50 good reasons to want to ban speech you disagree with . They all fall short. There is not, nor can there ever be, a sufficient reason to ban speech. That's one of the core values of the United States of America. That's one of the fundamental underpinnings of our freedom. It is inviolate.
Especially in the realm of politics. Especially there. We've fought hard to expand freedom of speech into things like wearing a shirt made out of the flag, or watching pornography or strip clubs. But the real reason that freedom of speech was so important that they put it in the constitution is for political speech. That is absolutely the last kind of speech you should ever consider banning. And any restriction on political speech is absolutely incompatible with the first amendment. It doesn't matter if you think it is a really good ideal. Or even if it really is important. The Federal government has no power to regulate speech, even political speech, because of the first amendment.
The fact that you and many of your compatriots here don't agree with this is sad. The revolutionary war was not about making democracy, as you claim. It was about throwing off tyranny. To ensure that tyranny never returned, they enshrined their values in the Constitution. At the core of this instrument for resisting tyranny was the belief that all men have freedom of their thoughts, associations and religion. That is why they made this the cornerstone of the republic, placing freedom of speech above all others, at the top of the bill of rights.
Agreed. There really should be an opportunity for better telco management tools. We have a few thousand DID numbers and getting the DMS-500 properly updated to do remote forwarding to another CO when we moved was a serious ordeal. Don't even get me started on local number disaster recovery. Even getting a single listing of our portion of the routing table is nigh impossible. They have to pull it one page at a time. Not to bad if you have 20 numbers. But thousands? Ouch! No wonder they screw something up every time we make a change.
Thankfully modern tech is coming to the rescue (sort of). We are moving to SIP trunks in a CO-LO with a private net to connect our various locations. DID failover problems should be a thing of the past.
You just file a resp-org document with them. Really easy, single page document.
If they accidentally give your number away, as happens sometimes, you need to get the person/company who received the number to agree to sign a resp-org over to you. I've done it several times for companies who's numbers ended up with us. Usually it is a seasonal business who lets their account expire out of season, like a ski chalet or a golf resort. The bonus for me was they usually are nice about you doing them a solid and send along some goodies, like a free shirt from the resort.
52 percent more households have at least one iPad in the Empire State
Which is enough to tell me that they don't have a good study. There's no way in hell that half the households in New York have an iPad. There's probably not that level of penetration for just about any single consumer product.
Fun game! Having never seen the setup or the results makes it tougher, but I'll guess: "door warped over the years and the mirror bends along with it."
The govt. already does this (see the lawsuit against Oracle); so do plenty of companies.
This was my first thought as well. This article following right on the heels of the announcement of the Oracle suite shows the completely schizophrenic nature of our government and the law. Oracle is being prosecuted for not doing exactly the same thing that Amazon/Apple are (potentially) being prosecuted for doing. Really bizarre stuff.
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Further explication: it is not the "up" that makes you weightless in orbit, it is the "sideways". You have to be going around the earth very fast to maintain orbit, otherwise you just fall right back down. The "very fast" part is "very expensive". Of course you could continue with "straight up" until earth's gravity no longer dominates and obtain weightlessness, but that's a really, really expensive proposition.
Senators? Elementary School Teachers? Yeah, those were joy-rides done as publicity stunts.
Interesting aside, Nova had a great episode about the space spy business. Did you know that the Soviets had a manned space station in the 70's that served as a spy station? Neither did I. During the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission we were told that the Soviets lacked the ability to do the maneuvering necessary to dock in orbit, so the Apollo capsule would have to do all the maneuvering. Turns out that was all bullshit to cover the fact that they already had a manned space station in orbit.
Here's what the man himself had to say about his wife on the eve of his conviction:
Ask me what has been my most fortunate experience of the past two decades, and I’d say it was gaining the selfless love of my wife, Liu Xia. She cannot be present in the courtroom today, but I still want to tell you, my sweetheart, that I'm confident that your love for me will be as always. Over the years, in my non-free life, our love has contained bitterness imposed by the external environment, but is boundless in afterthought. I am sentenced to a visible prison while you are waiting in an invisible one. Your love is sunlight that transcends prison walls and bars, stroking every inch of my skin, warming my every cell, letting me maintain my inner calm, magnanimous and bright, so that every minute in prison is full of meaning. But my love for you is full of guilt and regret, sometimes heavy enough hobble my steps. I am a hard stone in the wilderness, putting up with the pummeling of raging storms, and too cold for anyone to dare touch. But my love is hard, sharp, and can penetrate any obstacles. Even if I am crushed into powder, I will embrace you with the ashes....
More quotes and commentary can be found here. I think the Nobel committee may have accidentally found a worthy peace prize recipient for a change.
The sales figures for blu-ray seem to indicate otherwise. Sales are up over 68% year over year, marketshare has nearly doubled year over year (2009 to 1020).
Of course there are dynamics at work outside of the straight consumer choice angle. There is the control afforded the media companies via downloadable media to consider as well. That may be what these guys are relying on for their opinion. The question then is whether the sheep are willing to follow where they are being led.
Or better yet, what a wonderful way to discover that being up at 35,000 feet induces uncontrolled sphincter contractions.
Actually, anything above about 3,500-4,000 feet doesn't feel high anymore. Everything is so small and far away that it becomes just background. During freefall skydiving from 15k down to 3.5k everything is just "really effin' far". At about 3.5k things start to change and you get a sense of the earth approaching from below. Suddenly you are "up high" whereas above this level you are just flying in open space with no real sense of distance or motion.
So with that in mind I could see agoraphobia being a big problem with truly transparent 360 degree views, much more so than acrophobia.
I think they've found it in a fairly thick layer of oily sediment on the ocean floor. Here's the first example I could find. Nice pics of oily goodness covering the sea floor. Apparently there's a nice layer of freshly dead marine life just below the layer too.
I too am a PS3 owner and I have the same question. The answer to our question is found in the games. Are there games for the PS3 that use the new controller? Are there games for the Wii that use the motion control? Ok then, there's the answer.
I still don't have any good 6-axis games for my PS3, despite the reasonably high quality of this controller.
"Even if the baker has no more croissants, will the system with the trademark penguin almost made responsible Bader resulted in this conversation continues," the newspaper quoted the person responsible for the migration.
I don't think you can blame linux for this one. If that's the closest the CIO can come to a coherent thought, they had no chance. In fact, they probably should sack the person responsible for hiring the CIO. They would have been better off hiring a bunch of llamas.
But your condoms are made in the USA!
He's not a crank. He worked on the flying car!
But because I really wanted to work on the flying Car, I left Hughes Aircraft Company to work for Moller International as Chief Engineer in charge of the Flight Control System design of the (M200, M400 and Aerobot) Vertical Take-Off and Landing and “Flying Car” aircrafts.
To show it off you can take a tip from the NAP of the Americas. They have a large conference room immediately behind the operations center with the adjoining wall being entirely "snap glass" lcd panels. Super-cool effect for showing off the ops center with all of its high-tech video monitoring equipment. Touch a panel on the wall and the fourth wall of the room immediately becomes clear to show the ops center with all of the cool network traffic monitors, etc. Touch it again and the wall goes white.
FWIW, I highly recommend taking the tour there. Standing next to the pair of terabit routers that feed the root servers for ICAAN and Verisign is pretty cool. They don't really look any different than any other large router chassis, but c'mon, it is a terabit router at the top of the internet. Ok, maybe you have to be a nerd to appreciate that... Even more geek-cool is the "data exchange" where you can get on to the Internet at full wire speed for cheap. Just toss a cat-6 cable over the wall and plug in to the routers: boom, gigabit connection right into the backbone of the Internet. Pretty much every major and minor Internet provider has a presence in the exchange, and they have zero last-mile costs so you get really competitive pricing. And since all of the undersea cables terminate there, you are basically one hop away from most of South America and several places in Europe. It is pretty cool to see a route trace that shows 3 hops between you and a server on another continent. Or to ping any major search engine and get sub-millisecond ping times (because that's one of their server farms, right down the hall there...).
To the conspiracy theorists this sounds exactly like a warning shot. "Keep it up and we'll actually bring charges and make them stick."
Of course, that's the nice thing about conspiracy theories. They are devilishly difficult to disprove, and quite easy to propagate with confirmation bias.
Taking the absolute numbers really gives us ground for comparison. With a population of nearly 9 million, Rwanda is slightly more populous than New York, the largest city in the US. From the fine article, Rwanda is building to a total generation capacity of 150MW. The city of New York is one of the most energy efficient in the US, probably due to climate and housing density.
Even so, when the air conditioners kick in during the summer they can use 6.9 million megawatt hours in a single month.
You don't get to live in Phoenix, do you? Nothing is comparable to the awesomeness that is Phoenix...
The takehome for me was the amazing measure of just how small the Rwandan economy is - a single smallish power plant can supply a third of the country's power needs. That's a pretty good measure of how "third" the third world can be. The tiny town of Lake Worth Florida is considering adding 90 MW of capacity to their city run utility's power plant. Compare that with the planned 50MW capacity for the Rwanda plant. Simple math tells me that they plan for 150MW to cover the entire country in two years. Compared with one small town in Florida. And calling Lake Worth a town is generous. It is only a couple of miles long and wide - really more of a suburb of West Palm Beach. Which is sad in its own right - a suburb of a suburb of somebody's second home. (West Palm Beach services Palm Beach, where all of the rich folks have their second or third homes).
Your example is not singular:
In Colorado we have a prosecutor explaining away a DNA exclusion in the case of molestation of an 8 year old because "Depending on how long she had been wearing those panties and where, they could have rubbed up against the back of her chair at school, a restaurant, the couch at home that someone else had been sitting on, a bus seat, someone's toilet seat if she did not pull them down far enough — there are many ways to get unknown DNA on clothing. "
Still thinking this is an isolated incident? Don't believe there could be more than one prosecutor out there who would believe that an 8 year old got semen on her privates accidentally? Here's an Illinois prosecutor who refuses to believe a DNA exoneration. He actually claims that the semen that was found in the mouth, vagina and rectum of the 8 year old murder victim "must have found its way into the girl’s body while she was playing in a patch of woods where teenagers were known to have sex."
Prosecutors are immune from the real consequences of their fuckups, so you can't really expect them to work to overcome their natural resistance to being found wrong.
Uhm, do you have any idea what that "anarchy" word in your handle means? Or do you just like sounding "edgy"? Your comment basically reinforces his critique exactly: you clearly support mob rule. If "most people" don't like what a "few individuals" are doing, fuck 'em! We'll just confiscate their crap!
Do you feel the same way about non-economic issues of personal freedom, or is it just in the realm of money? If "most people" don't like the fact that I'm gay, can they just put us "few individual" gay people in the gas chamber for violating the social contract? Too extreme an example? Ok, what if they don't just exterminate sexual deviants - what if they instead use chemical or surgical means to enforce conformity with the social contract... that OK with you?
What about freedom of thought? If "most people" don't like the fact that I'm a vegan pagan who worships Baal, can they just ban that? Can they enforce the government mandated food pyramid on me and force me to get 20% of my calories from meat protein, even though Lord Baal has decreed this a sacrilege?
Look, the examples you are talking about are only even arguably "at the expense of everyone else" because of government mandated restrictions. Let's talk about something a little more obvious - how about movies? Michael Moore makes millions and millions of dollars for his movies... He's every bit as rich as any of those evil large mega telecommunications corporation executives. Actually, much, much richer than most of them. Every dollar he has was given to him in a voluntary exchange for the opportunity to view his film. Do you think he's enriched himself massively at the expense of everyone else? How so? (or why not?) His ethics are certainly much more questionable than Comcast. After all, Comcast doesn't ambush people and attempt to humiliate them on a worldwide stage for profit. They just pass along some data - worst you could say is they sometimes have crappy service. That's hardly in the same ballpark ethically.
OK, so you think Michael Moore is an ethical douche and deserves to have "most people" confiscate his crap too. What about John Lassiter? He made Toy Story, among others. I really enjoyed that movie. You can't really say he was unethical in making a cute little movie. He got stinking rich off of a whole bunch of people plunking down five bucks to see his little cartoon. Exactly how did he violate the social contract at the expense of everyone else?
Let's recast your argument:
"I am in favor of banning books because...."
You don't have to go any farther than that. There is no reason you can stick behind "because" that makes it OK. You might have 50 good reasons to want to ban speech you disagree with . They all fall short. There is not, nor can there ever be, a sufficient reason to ban speech. That's one of the core values of the United States of America. That's one of the fundamental underpinnings of our freedom. It is inviolate.
Especially in the realm of politics. Especially there. We've fought hard to expand freedom of speech into things like wearing a shirt made out of the flag, or watching pornography or strip clubs. But the real reason that freedom of speech was so important that they put it in the constitution is for political speech. That is absolutely the last kind of speech you should ever consider banning. And any restriction on political speech is absolutely incompatible with the first amendment. It doesn't matter if you think it is a really good ideal. Or even if it really is important. The Federal government has no power to regulate speech, even political speech, because of the first amendment.
The fact that you and many of your compatriots here don't agree with this is sad. The revolutionary war was not about making democracy, as you claim. It was about throwing off tyranny. To ensure that tyranny never returned, they enshrined their values in the Constitution. At the core of this instrument for resisting tyranny was the belief that all men have freedom of their thoughts, associations and religion. That is why they made this the cornerstone of the republic, placing freedom of speech above all others, at the top of the bill of rights.
Agreed. There really should be an opportunity for better telco management tools. We have a few thousand DID numbers and getting the DMS-500 properly updated to do remote forwarding to another CO when we moved was a serious ordeal. Don't even get me started on local number disaster recovery. Even getting a single listing of our portion of the routing table is nigh impossible. They have to pull it one page at a time. Not to bad if you have 20 numbers. But thousands? Ouch! No wonder they screw something up every time we make a change.
Thankfully modern tech is coming to the rescue (sort of). We are moving to SIP trunks in a CO-LO with a private net to connect our various locations. DID failover problems should be a thing of the past.
You just file a resp-org document with them. Really easy, single page document.
If they accidentally give your number away, as happens sometimes, you need to get the person/company who received the number to agree to sign a resp-org over to you. I've done it several times for companies who's numbers ended up with us. Usually it is a seasonal business who lets their account expire out of season, like a ski chalet or a golf resort. The bonus for me was they usually are nice about you doing them a solid and send along some goodies, like a free shirt from the resort.
<emily litella> .... Nevermind.
Oh, well that's different then.
<\emily litella>
DOH!
52 percent more households have at least one iPad in the Empire State
Which is enough to tell me that they don't have a good study. There's no way in hell that half the households in New York have an iPad. There's probably not that level of penetration for just about any single consumer product.
Fun game! Having never seen the setup or the results makes it tougher, but I'll guess: "door warped over the years and the mirror bends along with it."
Did I win!?
The govt. already does this (see the lawsuit against Oracle); so do plenty of companies.
This was my first thought as well. This article following right on the heels of the announcement of the Oracle suite shows the completely schizophrenic nature of our government and the law. Oracle is being prosecuted for not doing exactly the same thing that Amazon/Apple are (potentially) being prosecuted for doing. Really bizarre stuff.