and then they'd need to add an infrastructure, and then more people would be living in space, and in a few decades, a space colony might be self sufficient.
I don't know, which is why I'm asking, but I here the Catholic church holds such sway over Ireland that access to birth control and abortion is to the right of Jesse Helms.
One probably apocryphal anecdote I heard was that a pregnant tourist (non-Irish citizen) was detained in Ireland for fear that she would go get an abortion. True or false?
Although the book is about a man's erection, and there is plenty of sex, the only thing that comes close to 69 is when Slothrop nose fucks that 12 year old.
I think they should have made room for Panzer General in the top 25.
I'm an old school war game player, when playing war games meant clearing a large, horizontal surface the size of akitchen tabel for a week, setting up hundreds of little cardboard counters, and spending 20 hours reenacting WWII in Europe, or the siege of Stalingrad.
Now, with a curious 4 year old daughter, the only time I attempt something like that is when she's away. The rest of the time, there's Panzer General.
The AI isn't bad, I don't always win, and the scale is nice enough to allow for tactical decisions.
Has anyone played with the Wargame Publisher? This looks to be the salvation of paper and cardboard wargames.
It's unlikely to affect the trajectory
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It's an orientation issue, not a orbital change issue.
Cassini is supposed to changed it's orientation using internal flywheels, via conservation of rotational momentum, ie. the internal flywheel spins up counterclockwise, and Cassini turns clockwise, albeit much slower.
This isn't working, so they had to use the hydrazine thrusters. As long as the thrusters cooperate, there won't be a change in orbit, the push on one side will be balanced by an off center push on the other.
A shame though, because the flywheel manuevering only takes energy, which Cassini should have in scads. The thrusters take propellant, which Cassini has a finite supply. This may cause hte mission to have a reduce lifespan.
Lanier pisses me off when he talks about how unnatural UNIX/Linux is with it's focus on the command line. The command line is the most natural way humans communicate.
When you get home at night, and you MOTAS/roomies ask how your day was, do you
A. Draw pictures and icons of how your day went.
B. Tell them in words how it went.
When you have to describe a particular method of doing something, do you
A. Draw lots of pictures?
B. Use numbered steps with words?
I remember a book by an AT&T fellow about data compression and information theory. Two teams had to put together a mechanical device, one team member had the instructions, one had the parts, and they were separated. One team only had an oral link, the other team had video, too. There was no difference in the amount of time needed to build the device, the added video link added nothing.
HDF does Lanier plan to interact with his computers, pretty pictures? Waht ajoke.
If you do, someone's paying the radio station to play the ads.
Teh radio station is making money off the webcast, so obviously, the recording industry will want their share, too.
Of course, when you listen to a webcast from 2000 miles away, most ads aren't very useful. Gee, free hot dogs for the kiddies at a used car lot, I only have to drive 2000 miles to get them.
I recall quite a bit of misinformation being spread around in the 60's when those scientests were exposing every creature under the sun to LSD.
IIRC, one scientist postulated that exposing spiders to LSD ruined their depth perception, when later is was realized that spiders have no depth perception. This was later made into an open source truism:
Many eyes makes bugs shallow.
Fearmongering, silly fearmongering
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Yeah, well bioterrorism theoretically has potential to do a lot of damage, it's still not as easy as people think.
If Anthrax is so deadly, how come there weren't Bubonic type plagues of it when it was prevalent? It may be deadly, but it's not so easy to get. The odds of a person inhaling enough spores to get infected are pretty slim.
Ebola is scary, but it's so virulent, it kills the hosts before it can spread well.
Most dangerous plagues require a host that doesn't get sick to spread it around, ie bubonic plague and rats, and hanthavirii and mice. Modest housekeeping efforts are all you really need to prevent these.
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Becuase for a variety of societal reasons, there aren't as many blacks in the computer industry as there are whites, or Asians.
You can say the same thing for women, there aren't as many women in the computer industry as men, percentage wise.
I think to find their suit substantial, they need something stronger than percentages.
and then they'd need to add an infrastructure, and then more people would be living in space, and in a few decades, a space colony might be self sufficient.
And then we're out of the crib.
space until we have non-governmental access to space through commercial, low cost rockets.
Oh well, maybe the Chinese will start landing on Mars, just the thing we need to kick America in the pants.
Apparently I got the absurd case scenario mixed up with reality.
Say, if you wish, I can take up a collection to send the fundamentalist USians to Ireland.
There have been a few polls on Slashdot dealing with gender.
About 5% of the respondents indentify themselves as female.
I don't know, which is why I'm asking, but I here the Catholic church holds such sway over Ireland that access to birth control and abortion is to the right of Jesse Helms.
One probably apocryphal anecdote I heard was that a pregnant tourist (non-Irish citizen) was detained in Ireland for fear that she would go get an abortion. True or false?
For instance, if you want to own a gun, it's hard to beat the US.
If you wish to practice Scientology, stay away from Germany.
I hear Canada has strange porn laws, you can probably find harder porn in the US (I'm talking dead tree porn here).
If you're a woman (I know, only about 5% of Slashdot) there are a lot of countries that are less enlightened about women's rights than the US.
If you will obviously stick out as a foreigner, there are other countries you may want to stay away from.
If you desire sexual freedom, stay away from highly religious countries, like Ireland, which bans abortion and may have birth control restrictions.
Sorry this isn't more help, but you've asked a very broad question.
Although the book is about a man's erection, and there is plenty of sex, the only thing that comes close to 69 is when Slothrop nose fucks that 12 year old.
Though, I haven't had times to play any of them lately.
I think they should have made room for Panzer General in the top 25.
I'm an old school war game player, when playing war games meant clearing a large, horizontal surface the size of akitchen tabel for a week, setting up hundreds of little cardboard counters, and spending 20 hours reenacting WWII in Europe, or the siege of Stalingrad.
Now, with a curious 4 year old daughter, the only time I attempt something like that is when she's away. The rest of the time, there's Panzer General.
The AI isn't bad, I don't always win, and the scale is nice enough to allow for tactical decisions.
Has anyone played with the Wargame Publisher? This looks to be the salvation of paper and cardboard wargames.
It's an orientation issue, not a orbital change issue.
Cassini is supposed to changed it's orientation using internal flywheels, via conservation of rotational momentum, ie. the internal flywheel spins up counterclockwise, and Cassini turns clockwise, albeit much slower.
This isn't working, so they had to use the hydrazine thrusters. As long as the thrusters cooperate, there won't be a change in orbit, the push on one side will be balanced by an off center push on the other.
A shame though, because the flywheel manuevering only takes energy, which Cassini should have in scads. The thrusters take propellant, which Cassini has a finite supply. This may cause hte mission to have a reduce lifespan.
Rochester NY was an early adopter of VCR technology, I still think you can buy blank beta tapes in ROchester.
As I use a reel mower to mow my teeny tiny lawn.
I also don't carry a watch, either quartz or self-winding, as my Palm gives me time, too.
Yeah, well, the servers crashed because they're cryogenically cooled superconductors, and we ran out of liquid helium this week.
I have to go to the drugstore to buy a few more pounds of liquid helium, I'll be back after lunch.
When you get home at night, and you MOTAS/roomies ask how your day was, do you
When you have to describe a particular method of doing something, do you
A. Draw lots of pictures?
B. Use numbered steps with words?
I remember a book by an AT&T fellow about data compression and information theory. Two teams had to put together a mechanical device, one team member had the instructions, one had the parts, and they were separated. One team only had an oral link, the other team had video, too. There was no difference in the amount of time needed to build the device, the added video link added nothing.
HDF does Lanier plan to interact with his computers, pretty pictures? Waht ajoke.
If you do, someone's paying the radio station to play the ads.
Teh radio station is making money off the webcast, so obviously, the recording industry will want their share, too.
Of course, when you listen to a webcast from 2000 miles away, most ads aren't very useful. Gee, free hot dogs for the kiddies at a used car lot, I only have to drive 2000 miles to get them.
I recall quite a bit of misinformation being spread around in the 60's when those scientests were exposing every creature under the sun to LSD.
IIRC, one scientist postulated that exposing spiders to LSD ruined their depth perception, when later is was realized that spiders have no depth perception. This was later made into an open source truism:
Many eyes makes bugs shallow.
Yeah, well bioterrorism theoretically has potential to do a lot of damage, it's still not as easy as people think.
If Anthrax is so deadly, how come there weren't Bubonic type plagues of it when it was prevalent? It may be deadly, but it's not so easy to get. The odds of a person inhaling enough spores to get infected are pretty slim.
Ebola is scary, but it's so virulent, it kills the hosts before it can spread well.
Most dangerous plagues require a host that doesn't get sick to spread it around, ie bubonic plague and rats, and hanthavirii and mice. Modest housekeeping efforts are all you really need to prevent these.
oh well, maybe they'll sell lots of books.