My theory, which goes for the PS3 as well: it stops you putting any other device neatly on top of it, making it seem more awesome (hopefully to your Tivo-less friends who come over) thanks to it being at the top of the stack.
Laughable. Even the headline of the article isn't convinced by its own content: "10 Reasons the Moon Landings Could Be a Hoax." Have some conviction!
Their number 1 is even completely wrong. The backgrounds don't match exactly. Parallax is evident, proving that the shots were taken from different locations relative to the mountains.
Add weight, or move weight, to get the CG to the proper location during ejection.
How would you do that if the CG needs to move forward and up? Strap weights across the pilot's chest? An extra heavy helmet? I can't imagine that having zero consequences while flying a plane.
The problem is that the seat over-rotates when it's underloaded. That's about where the center of gravity is, so it's not as simple as just making up the missing weight.
How is that in any way analogous to statistically studying mass killings/injurings? I never suggested looking at one stabbing spree and one gun spree and forming policy based on the results.
the only difference between victims being injured or killed is a matter of luck. I consider it an error of the highest order to include that sort of randomness in the factors which drive public policy.
What about them? It's been 14 years since the last mass murder with an airplane in the US, and after it happened something got done (okay, it culminated in body scanners and the TSA, but that's another discussion).
If a wizard suddenly made it impossible for guns to exist in America; they could not pass across any border, the ones inside the country simply turned into nothingness, do you think the rates of assault and murder would instantly go down?
Yes, I do think that getting rid of the easiest at-a-distance point-and-click method of murder would result in lower murder rates.
Call me crazy...
Or do you think someone can commit mass murder on this scale with knives and baseball bats?
Because that would require Samzenpus to have read and understood the summary and checked the linked article before posting. And that's a little too much like work for a Slashdot editor.
used their thoughts to control a computer cursor with unprecedented accuracy and speed... while paralyzed people can type faster using other assistive technologies
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Fixed link.
My theory, which goes for the PS3 as well: it stops you putting any other device neatly on top of it, making it seem more awesome (hopefully to your Tivo-less friends who come over) thanks to it being at the top of the stack.
I don't think he meant out on the streets. I think he meant in pipes where no-one will get a tan.
Or are you worried about UV photons in your water supply?
Laughable. Even the headline of the article isn't convinced by its own content: "10 Reasons the Moon Landings Could Be a Hoax." Have some conviction!
Their number 1 is even completely wrong. The backgrounds don't match exactly. Parallax is evident, proving that the shots were taken from different locations relative to the mountains.
Unlikely, given that you can't see any stars, and it's not in any of the surrounding similar photos.
Google As Alphabet Subsidiary Drops "Don't Be Evil"
Why are we still continuing the tradition of writing headlines in weirdly mangled and abbreviated English with stupid capitalisation?
Google, as an Alphabet subsidiary, drops "Don't Be Evil"
"Do the right thing" is highly ambiguous
As opposed to the standard internationally-agreed and completely unambiguous defintion of "evil" that everyone always agrees on...
"Don't be evil" also implies that, unless they keep reminding themselves not to with a motto, they'd be doing evil by default.
A bit like walking into the dentist's and being told "Here at Premium Dentacare, we always try to send our patients home alive!"
Add weight, or move weight, to get the CG to the proper location during ejection.
How would you do that if the CG needs to move forward and up? Strap weights across the pilot's chest? An extra heavy helmet? I can't imagine that having zero consequences while flying a plane.
The problem is that the seat over-rotates when it's underloaded. That's about where the center of gravity is, so it's not as simple as just making up the missing weight.
How is that in any way analogous to statistically studying mass killings/injurings? I never suggested looking at one stabbing spree and one gun spree and forming policy based on the results.
"Well" in what sense? TIFF's just a container.
the only difference between victims being injured or killed is a matter of luck. I consider it an error of the highest order to include that sort of randomness in the factors which drive public policy.
So you haven't heard of "statistics" either?
What about them? It's been 14 years since the last mass murder with an airplane in the US, and after it happened something got done (okay, it culminated in body scanners and the TSA, but that's another discussion).
While typically these events are "less fatal"
Which is what I said, isn't it?
I don't think a 0-deaths attack should be considered better if victim counts [wikipedia.org] remain high.
I do. I absolutely do. I'll take "21 people injured" over "21 people killed" any day. What's wrong with your maths?
People resorted to using guns and murder is still an issue.
Oh, now, did I say murders would drop to zero? Nope.
And now people like you want to ban guns, too?
I also quite deliberately did not say that I wanted to ban guns - mainly to see if anyone would automatically assume that I did.
I said mass murder. I'm not talking about one guy stabbing one or two people on the street because one of them owed the other drugs money.
1) Before you go around accusing the NRA of being terrorist, ask yourself, which one of them have actually committed a terrorist act?
Timothy McVeigh. Just answering your question.
If a wizard suddenly made it impossible for guns to exist in America; they could not pass across any border, the ones inside the country simply turned into nothingness, do you think the rates of assault and murder would instantly go down?
Yes, I do think that getting rid of the easiest at-a-distance point-and-click method of murder would result in lower murder rates.
Call me crazy...
Or do you think someone can commit mass murder on this scale with knives and baseball bats?
The answer is less guns, not more.
I'm sorry, but I can't let such words go unchallenged.
The answer is fewer guns ;)
they should be having 'several' mass shootings per year, not zero
I think it's pretty clear that they don't have an editorial policy.
Or anyone who does any editing.
Because that would require Samzenpus to have read and understood the summary and checked the linked article before posting. And that's a little too much like work for a Slashdot editor.
At the very least, you could have briefly explained what was suspicious about it.
Slashdot didn't retract or even acknowledge a story that's an outright falsehood, so why would they do anything about this?
used their thoughts to control a computer cursor with unprecedented accuracy and speed... while paralyzed people can type faster using other assistive technologies
So, very much... precedented, then?