When I open Twitter during a major debate in the U.S., or when a bomb has exploded in Bangkok, there should be a huge f@$%&#g banner at the top that says 'follow this breaking event.'
Why should there be a banner? If you go to Twitter to get your breaking news, you're a maroon.
I thought one of the whole points of Twitter is that it's 99% driven by user content, not by the company deciding what to promote, and that seems to work just, umm... "fine." If you like that sort of thing.
I assume at least they're looking for brightness rather than timing (distance travelled is very short and light is very fast) to determine the distance of an object.
That sounds like a terrible idea. What happens if two objects reflect different amounts of laser light?
Light may be "very fast" but we're very good at measuring it.
has been shorting funding for the commercial crew spacecraft
Ugh, is "shorting" a verb now as well? I knew it was some weird thing you can do with share options, but I didn't realise we needed a replacement for "reducing."
You can read just about anything into anything if you squint hard enough.
"Star Trek's latest iterations — the 'reboot' films directed by J.J. Abrams — shrug at the franchise's former philosophical depth."
I was going to say "Of course they do. It's two films so far. About four hours of material." But then I thought about the first two or three original movies...
My abiding memory of science teaching was the chemistry teacher who wanted to demonstrate the reactivity of phosphorous with air. He pulled a large stick of phosphorus (oxidised on the outside) out of a jar of water and carefully sliced off a small section. He then rushed to drop the rest of the stick back into the jar of water, but he missed and it bounced off the rim of the jar, landed on the table and promptly burst into flames and began to fill the room with fumes.
[The boy's] details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.
[The boy's] details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.
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Automatic Semicolon Insertion makes Javascript look like it was designed by an idiot.
It does that? Huh. And there's me, typing semicolons like a sucker.
oekaki
Ohhh, no, I ain't googling that.
so that gravity is always pulling in the most convenient direction.
Down?
You're an idiot.
Does it? Do explain why.
It's a chapple.
One of the most most controversial aspects of Windows 10
I guess that could be a typo...
Smoke you, melon farmer!
When I open Twitter during a major debate in the U.S., or when a bomb has exploded in Bangkok, there should be a huge f@$%&#g banner at the top that says 'follow this breaking event.'
Why should there be a banner? If you go to Twitter to get your breaking news, you're a maroon.
I thought one of the whole points of Twitter is that it's 99% driven by user content, not by the company deciding what to promote, and that seems to work just, umm... "fine." If you like that sort of thing.
I assume at least they're looking for brightness rather than timing (distance travelled is very short and light is very fast) to determine the distance of an object.
That sounds like a terrible idea. What happens if two objects reflect different amounts of laser light?
Light may be "very fast" but we're very good at measuring it.
They estimate it to be 13.2 billion years old, making it only about 600,000 years younger than the Big Bang.
Only out by a factor of 1000. Not bad.
I don't suppose anyone will actually bother editing it to stop Slashdot looking like an idiot.
Google had a cooler logo.
Get Big Fast
Nooo. Get big: eat.
has been shorting funding for the commercial crew spacecraft
Ugh, is "shorting" a verb now as well? I knew it was some weird thing you can do with share options, but I didn't realise we needed a replacement for "reducing."
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A rad sunny moo cow.
I am always reminded by this XKCD when I see articles like this:
https://xkcd.com/451/
You can read just about anything into anything if you squint hard enough.
"Star Trek's latest iterations — the 'reboot' films directed by J.J. Abrams — shrug at the franchise's former philosophical depth."
I was going to say "Of course they do. It's two films so far. About four hours of material." But then I thought about the first two or three original movies...
Viola you've expanded the Star Trek universe
It's "voila," you bassoon.
This is a simple matter of physics.
There's your problem. This guy must be chemistry.
My abiding memory of science teaching was the chemistry teacher who wanted to demonstrate the reactivity of phosphorous with air. He pulled a large stick of phosphorus (oxidised on the outside) out of a jar of water and carefully sliced off a small section. He then rushed to drop the rest of the stick back into the jar of water, but he missed and it bounced off the rim of the jar, landed on the table and promptly burst into flames and began to fill the room with fumes.
Science!
Burn the witch!
It's a fair cop.
You go bonkers/wrong if you wear a watch? Therapy, I'd say.
A lot of people have leapt to the conclusion that the girl got away scot-free.
From the BBC article on the same story:
[The boy's] details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.
i know people need false things to worry about but seriously i don't see child molesters behind every shrub in America.
That's because they've learned how not to be seen!
All of which has led to a criminal conviction against the child.
No, it has not. He hasn't been convicted of anything.
Lean to read.
And so she was:
[The boy's] details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.