Ligher and far more forgiving. I've seen one Sammy, a Galaxy Note, with a cracked screen...and it seems every third iPhone is shattered. My broke-ass friend got a 4 when they went up for free, put in in a OTTERBOX, and promptly dropped and broke it. We're both technically savvy dudes and decided that the undeniably beautiful seamless metal and glass construction, while aesthetically incomparable, is utter shite at absorbing shock - phone goes down, lands on a corner, frame transfers energy to glass, CRUNCH. My S3 has hit the ground many times, hell, I slipped and literally flung it to the sidewalk once...nary a scratch, and it just has a silicone skin and screen film.
I have two contracts with Verizon that roll over a year apart; I need both lines for the foreseeable future and don't plan on switching carriers (I go to deep deep Louisiana and Maine, NO other service out there). I have a less-than-year-old S3 that has been in a rubber-baby-buggy-bumper and screen protector since day 1, absolutely mint condition; I can unload it on ebay and get an S4 on contract while quite possibly putting money in my pocket. Been at it for four years, it's really not a bad gig if you can swing it.
Dogfights IMO are visual-range bar-brawlin' GUNFIGHTS. Hell, even with Sidewinders in SE Asia they had to retrofit the Phantoms with cannon pods; when your ROE is eyeballs-on-the-bogey, you're too close in for anything else.
The point of the whole secure-comms thing as I understand it is to have one 22 staying well out of range of the hostiles with its targeting radar active (which totally screams HI GUYS HERE I AM LOOK AT ME YAAAAAAAAAAH!), feeding the info unidirectionally to a few more Raptors that are much closer and have all their radio and radar emitters quiet; they receive the data, feed it to their tracking and targeting systems, and fire all without (theoretically) compromising their stealthiness - the bad guys see one fighter 150 miles away and think "ha ha dumbass is lighting us up from out there!" and next thing they know six AMRAAMS appear out of thin air 20 miles away.
Yes, the latest and greatest zEnterprise mainframe will likely run your 1969 payroll software unmodified, or at worst with just a bit of (well-documented) work. I'm sure there are loads of features that have been added since the 360 days, but deep down inside those 5.5GHz processors beats an old, transistorized heart.
I'm getting a price for GOOG of $785. That's $2,512,000,000 of literal cash under the mattress. IT's not that GOOG is a particularly risky stock, but money in the bank is more or less zero-risk; putting enough away to live like a king for the rest of your days certainly seems to me the absolutely perfect retirement strategy.
RMS is The Man behind Hurd; it's as much a single-origin project as is Linux - and if he did as much work, and were as effective a leader/manager generally, as Linus, Hurd would probably be the bleeding-edge OS right now.
But he'd rather yell half-nonsense about Freedom Über Alles and eat his toe jam. Just sayin'.
Bricks can be fixed with JTAG; if you have to outright replace the hardware, that's fried, toasted, nuked. (How the HELL does software do something THAT bad, anyway? Even flashing a ROM for an entirely incorrect model on a smartphone is still technically reparable..)
It's almost exclusively used for major major MAJOR depression that's totally unresponsive to every other treatment - you certainly aren't healthy, but you're oriented in the spheres of person, place and time when you give your informed consent. It's probably a reverse cause though; I think (and Wiki agrees) it has shown some effectiveness in psychosis and schizophrenia but when you're loony like that you can't give consent so they can't zap you...it isn't the 50s anymore.
I've killed probably hundreds of times with my various guns! At least 20 deer, which I've proceeded to nom, and when I lived in Maine it was open season on red squirrels - beaning those suckers on the run is just about the most challenging shooting I've ever done.
In all seriousness though, never ever once even thought about killing a person. And I've put FAR more holes in paper than in animals.
[T]he constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
They have a long track record of suing people that get angry and punch them in the face; they fully intend to incite lawless action. They're going to a service for twenty dead children; if that isn't imminent and likely to produce said action then I have no idea what IS.
They fail the test. The Nazis in Skokie were protected, but fuck all if these guys are.
I always tried to imagine what a ship designed like a "sleek white running shoe" would look like...that pretty much nails it. Sure, the product literature yaps on about "infinity symbols", but I can see better..
Aluminum is flammable - get a good roaring fire going (a distinct possibility on a warship) and bad things happen..
Belknap was severely damaged in a collision with John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1975 in heavy weather off the coast of Sicily. A fire broke out on Belknap following the collision, and during the fire her aluminium superstructure was melted, burned and gutted to the deck level. -- This fire and the resultant damage and deaths, which would have been less had Belknap's superstructure been made of steel, drove the US Navy's decision to pursue all-steel construction in its next major classes of surface combatants
I'm not judging, mind you...matter of fact I think it's a nifty idea, I'm just not that nervous myself, BUT, if you're going to go through the trouble of having a dedicated device for security reasons, well, I have an AspireOne myself that's been relegated to toy status since traded in my elderly G4 desktop for a shiny new MBP and it runs OpenBSD well enough for your needs. WiFi isn't working but you probably wouldn't want to use that anyway.
And yes I realize there's virtually no difference in security between the two and you can't put STOP on a netbook but as I said, if you're going to have a dedicated device, only 2 security holes in the default install in a heck of a long time!
I don't do electronics per se, but for my all-purpose-home-workshop I put 36" tubes paralleling the wall 6" out and then 24" tubes on every other joist above the workbench and wherever else I need light. Plus two drafting lamps, and I picked up some stupid cheap clipon LED tasklights at Ikea. I use it for hobby electronics, ammunition reloading, and general tinkering/building stuff and it's honestly just adequate. Tubes on every joist might not be a bad idea.
New York Penal - Article 125 - 125.15 Manslaughter in the Second Degree
125.15 Manslaughter in the second degree.
A person is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree when:
1. He recklessly causes the death of another person
I mention NY because there's a bunch of busy airports with lots of fat, juicy laser targets in holding or on approach/final.
And yeah, I'm fine with very publically charging a couple of little pricks waving green lasers at aircraft with 150-500 counts of Attempted 2nd Degree Manslaughter; maybe make the punishment a $10 fine per charge in this case but make good goddamn sure they carry every count around on their record. Three. Hundred. Felony. Convictions. Yep, utterly obliterate their lives and make fucking sure the entire world knows it ain't worth it - with shit like the Wicked Lasers Arctic 1.25W blue laser available, it's only a matter of time until some fucktard with $400 to blow decides to shine one of THOSE at a Heavy on final into JFK (over Queens). I don't care if s/he just thinks "it would be funny", strict liability. Light a plane = intent to kill every soul onboard.
Or the harder crims start using them as AAA against police choppers..that one should be punishable by summary execution, maybe rig up a Hellfire to ride the beam..
John Siracusa wrote a full page on the literal "out of box" experience with the G4 Cube, it seems it's still relevant today:
Who cares what the packing materials are like? What does this have to do with the quality of the product? Is nice styrofoam supposed to make up for the huge price tag? But step back a minute and consider Apple's motivation here. Like other "boutique" brands (e.g. Bose or Bang & Olufsen), it's important for Apple to provide a uniformly high quality experience with its products. And yes, that certainly includes packaging. In fact, psychologically, packaging may be one of the most important first impressions. The customer needs to be reassured from the very start that their money was well spent. It's not so much that they'll be impressed by the packaging, it's just important to prevent the feeling of "cheapness" that might result if "standard" packaging materials and techniques are used. Welcome to the wonderful world of marketing.
Love or hate Apple, but they think everything through.
He wasn't ripping along in a Hummer or anything, he was on a freakin' motorcycle. Sure, he'd crunch up the outside of a vehicle pretty well, but unless he ran smack into a stopped car and managed to catapult through the window, he was only endangering himself. One of the basic rules of riding, the cagers aren't gonna look for you because even if you DO hit them you aren't gonna hurt them.
Mind you, I don't endorse nor practice asshattery like that, but at the same time I realize that despite what some people shriek, it isn't particularly dangerous to anybody other than yourself.
Your freedom of opinion does not INCLUDE the freedom to think I or anybody else is less than you. It ends before you can intrude on my right. Nobody has the right not to be offended, but you damn sure have the right not be a victim of racist behavior INCLUDING slurs.
How the hell is what I THINK or even for that matter SAY in any conceivable way an intrusion on your rights? I wholeheartedly agree that racist ACTIONS, real and tangible infractions on your human rights, should be restricted by law...but as you yourself say, freedom from offense isn't a right, and I entirely fail to see how thoughts and speech can almost ever rise to anything more than mere offense*.
* - cf. Brandenburg v. Ohio; "[T]he constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
You said it yourself, 40% of children failed to reach adulthood. Most numbers that are thrown around are the average at birth; the high infant mortality rates of the past lead to artificially low numbers (e.g. you have 6 babies, 4 of them die within a year but the remaining two live to be 65, your average expectancy is...well, a lot lower than 65, the math is more involved than I want to get atm). In Rome, the average expectancy was 24, but if you made it to 5 years old your new average was 48, more than enough time to bear and raise children even if you married in your mid-20s.
I suspect the early marriage of yore was so you could start producing children as soon as possible, to insure you could bear enough that at least one or two would make it through childhood and get to the point where they could reasonably expect to see 50.
The basic structural frame of Zvezda, known as "DOS-8", was initially built in the mid-1980s to be the core of the Mir-2 space station. This means that Zvezda is similar in layout to the core module (DOS-7) of the Mir space station. It was in fact labeled as "Mir-2" for quite some time in the factory. Its design lineage thus extends back to the original Salyut stations. The space frame was completed in February 1985 and major internal equipment was installed by October 1986.
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Ligher and far more forgiving. I've seen one Sammy, a Galaxy Note, with a cracked screen...and it seems every third iPhone is shattered. My broke-ass friend got a 4 when they went up for free, put in in a OTTERBOX, and promptly dropped and broke it. We're both technically savvy dudes and decided that the undeniably beautiful seamless metal and glass construction, while aesthetically incomparable, is utter shite at absorbing shock - phone goes down, lands on a corner, frame transfers energy to glass, CRUNCH. My S3 has hit the ground many times, hell, I slipped and literally flung it to the sidewalk once...nary a scratch, and it just has a silicone skin and screen film.
I have two contracts with Verizon that roll over a year apart; I need both lines for the foreseeable future and don't plan on switching carriers (I go to deep deep Louisiana and Maine, NO other service out there). I have a less-than-year-old S3 that has been in a rubber-baby-buggy-bumper and screen protector since day 1, absolutely mint condition; I can unload it on ebay and get an S4 on contract while quite possibly putting money in my pocket. Been at it for four years, it's really not a bad gig if you can swing it.
Dogfights IMO are visual-range bar-brawlin' GUNFIGHTS. Hell, even with Sidewinders in SE Asia they had to retrofit the Phantoms with cannon pods; when your ROE is eyeballs-on-the-bogey, you're too close in for anything else.
The point of the whole secure-comms thing as I understand it is to have one 22 staying well out of range of the hostiles with its targeting radar active (which totally screams HI GUYS HERE I AM LOOK AT ME YAAAAAAAAAAH!), feeding the info unidirectionally to a few more Raptors that are much closer and have all their radio and radar emitters quiet; they receive the data, feed it to their tracking and targeting systems, and fire all without (theoretically) compromising their stealthiness - the bad guys see one fighter 150 miles away and think "ha ha dumbass is lighting us up from out there!" and next thing they know six AMRAAMS appear out of thin air 20 miles away.
Yes, the latest and greatest zEnterprise mainframe will likely run your 1969 payroll software unmodified, or at worst with just a bit of (well-documented) work. I'm sure there are loads of features that have been added since the 360 days, but deep down inside those 5.5GHz processors beats an old, transistorized heart.
I'm getting a price for GOOG of $785. That's $2,512,000,000 of literal cash under the mattress. IT's not that GOOG is a particularly risky stock, but money in the bank is more or less zero-risk; putting enough away to live like a king for the rest of your days certainly seems to me the absolutely perfect retirement strategy.
RMS is The Man behind Hurd; it's as much a single-origin project as is Linux - and if he did as much work, and were as effective a leader/manager generally, as Linus, Hurd would probably be the bleeding-edge OS right now.
But he'd rather yell half-nonsense about Freedom Über Alles and eat his toe jam. Just sayin'.
Bricks can be fixed with JTAG; if you have to outright replace the hardware, that's fried, toasted, nuked. (How the HELL does software do something THAT bad, anyway? Even flashing a ROM for an entirely incorrect model on a smartphone is still technically reparable..)
It's almost exclusively used for major major MAJOR depression that's totally unresponsive to every other treatment - you certainly aren't healthy, but you're oriented in the spheres of person, place and time when you give your informed consent. It's probably a reverse cause though; I think (and Wiki agrees) it has shown some effectiveness in psychosis and schizophrenia but when you're loony like that you can't give consent so they can't zap you...it isn't the 50s anymore.
I've killed probably hundreds of times with my various guns! At least 20 deer, which I've proceeded to nom, and when I lived in Maine it was open season on red squirrels - beaning those suckers on the run is just about the most challenging shooting I've ever done.
In all seriousness though, never ever once even thought about killing a person. And I've put FAR more holes in paper than in animals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
They have a long track record of suing people that get angry and punch them in the face; they fully intend to incite lawless action. They're going to a service for twenty dead children; if that isn't imminent and likely to produce said action then I have no idea what IS.
They fail the test. The Nazis in Skokie were protected, but fuck all if these guys are.
..is indistinguishable from magic, or divinity.
I always tried to imagine what a ship designed like a "sleek white running shoe" would look like...that pretty much nails it. Sure, the product literature yaps on about "infinity symbols", but I can see better..
Aluminum is flammable - get a good roaring fire going (a distinct possibility on a warship) and bad things happen..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Belknap_(CG-26)
I'm not judging, mind you...matter of fact I think it's a nifty idea, I'm just not that nervous myself, BUT, if you're going to go through the trouble of having a dedicated device for security reasons, well, I have an AspireOne myself that's been relegated to toy status since traded in my elderly G4 desktop for a shiny new MBP and it runs OpenBSD well enough for your needs. WiFi isn't working but you probably wouldn't want to use that anyway.
And yes I realize there's virtually no difference in security between the two and you can't put STOP on a netbook but as I said, if you're going to have a dedicated device, only 2 security holes in the default install in a heck of a long time!
I don't do electronics per se, but for my all-purpose-home-workshop I put 36" tubes paralleling the wall 6" out and then 24" tubes on every other joist above the workbench and wherever else I need light. Plus two drafting lamps, and I picked up some stupid cheap clipon LED tasklights at Ikea. I use it for hobby electronics, ammunition reloading, and general tinkering/building stuff and it's honestly just adequate. Tubes on every joist might not be a bad idea.
Can we use this?
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I mention NY because there's a bunch of busy airports with lots of fat, juicy laser targets in holding or on approach/final.
And yeah, I'm fine with very publically charging a couple of little pricks waving green lasers at aircraft with 150-500 counts of Attempted 2nd Degree Manslaughter; maybe make the punishment a $10 fine per charge in this case but make good goddamn sure they carry every count around on their record. Three. Hundred. Felony. Convictions. Yep, utterly obliterate their lives and make fucking sure the entire world knows it ain't worth it - with shit like the Wicked Lasers Arctic 1.25W blue laser available, it's only a matter of time until some fucktard with $400 to blow decides to shine one of THOSE at a Heavy on final into JFK (over Queens). I don't care if s/he just thinks "it would be funny", strict liability. Light a plane = intent to kill every soul onboard.
Or the harder crims start using them as AAA against police choppers..that one should be punishable by summary execution, maybe rig up a Hellfire to ride the beam..
..by superimposing brain scans and looking at them through a green filter?
The more protection the better!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkiecampfdgfjilccfpfoe?hl=en
John Siracusa wrote a full page on the literal "out of box" experience with the G4 Cube, it seems it's still relevant today:
Love or hate Apple, but they think everything through.
He wasn't ripping along in a Hummer or anything, he was on a freakin' motorcycle. Sure, he'd crunch up the outside of a vehicle pretty well, but unless he ran smack into a stopped car and managed to catapult through the window, he was only endangering himself. One of the basic rules of riding, the cagers aren't gonna look for you because even if you DO hit them you aren't gonna hurt them.
Mind you, I don't endorse nor practice asshattery like that, but at the same time I realize that despite what some people shriek, it isn't particularly dangerous to anybody other than yourself.
Your freedom of opinion does not INCLUDE the freedom to think I or anybody else is less than you. It ends before you can intrude on my right. Nobody has the right not to be offended, but you damn sure have the right not be a victim of racist behavior INCLUDING slurs.
How the hell is what I THINK or even for that matter SAY in any conceivable way an intrusion on your rights? I wholeheartedly agree that racist ACTIONS, real and tangible infractions on your human rights, should be restricted by law...but as you yourself say, freedom from offense isn't a right, and I entirely fail to see how thoughts and speech can almost ever rise to anything more than mere offense*.
* - cf. Brandenburg v. Ohio; "[T]he constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
You said it yourself, 40% of children failed to reach adulthood. Most numbers that are thrown around are the average at birth; the high infant mortality rates of the past lead to artificially low numbers (e.g. you have 6 babies, 4 of them die within a year but the remaining two live to be 65, your average expectancy is...well, a lot lower than 65, the math is more involved than I want to get atm). In Rome, the average expectancy was 24, but if you made it to 5 years old your new average was 48, more than enough time to bear and raise children even if you married in your mid-20s.
I suspect the early marriage of yore was so you could start producing children as soon as possible, to insure you could bear enough that at least one or two would make it through childhood and get to the point where they could reasonably expect to see 50.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezda_(ISS)