Eff K Street, I want this museum right in the middle of the Mall, facing the Capitol Building. I want it lit up at night, with a screen illuminated with the name of the latest political scumbag to get caught shown in 20 ft tall letters. I want the astronauts on the ISS to see this building from orbit.
The Smithsonian should open up a National Museum of Political Corruption right on the Mall in Washington D.C, between the Capitol and the White House. There is plenty of source material there, and more coming daily. Maybe some public shaming would actually get these twits to...oh, I don't know, WORK FOR THE PEOPLE!
No joking, there is a tendency for mental health disorders to run in families. Not just genetic or hereditary issues, some aspects are environmental. If the parents have disorders, there is a high probability that the children will have disorders.
Sadly, some folks don't know what "normal" is, and manage to function with their disorders, thinking that they are "normal". And the kids grow up thinking that what they are experiencing is normal. And so on, and so on. Until someone realizes everything is broken and crashes, hurting or killing themselves to get out of the cycle.
We didn't used to, but after two world wars with Europe and Asia causing shit and shooting us first, we decided to declare open season on...everything. When in doubt, shoot it. When still in doubt, shoot it again.
Hmmm...I could see some nefarious person or organization painting an Amazon logo on their drone, loading it up with 55 lbs of plastic explosive/ anthrax spores/[insert mayhem causing substance or object here], and flying it off to fuck up someone's day. It would look "legit", as you don't have to mock up a delivery truck to put the package on someone's doorstep.
It will be interesting when a bunch of senators and congressmen suddenly get packages from "Amazon" delivered to their doorstep - all at once.
Yet we abandoned an existing orbital capability in 2011 and put all our shuttles into museums so we could buy rides from the Russians.
And we're still years away from putting a human in orbit. Hell, they are just talking about an unmanned spin around the moon, in 3 years (maybe).
We went from JFK's speech to boots on the Moon in less than 10 years. We've now been dicking around with PowerPoints describing Constellation and now Ares/Orion for 10 years already, and we're still many years (and election cycles) away from sending an astronaut anywhere with any of it. This is all to simply to get back to orbit and maybe the Moon, stuff we did 46 years ago.
You can argue about the date when it happened, but the balls have been lost.
We can't even send a monkey anymore, because that would offend PETA.
This country lost its collective balls in the 1960s. We can't cope with any risk or danger anymore. This is why we'll never walk on the moon again. This is also why the terrorists are running our lives these days.
Dealers need to step aside and get out of the fucking way of the sale. It's a stupid business model. There is no value in having a middleman in this process anymore.
Put a firm price tag on the damned vehicle along with a spec sheet - haggling over the price of the of an expensive item like a car like you are in some Algerian bazaar pisses people off. Have an attendant handle the keys and accompany road tests. Done.
I'll never go to a chain dealership to buy a car. I've bought my last several cars off lease from a used car seller who puts a price tag on the car, and simply hands you the keys for a road test and asks that you have the car back by closing time. Their prices are good because they don't have to pay a bunch of salespeople to play fucking mind games with customers all damned day, and they have good sales volume. They have an awesome local reputation.
I have a JBL speaker that I had to ship back to the manufacturer to be replaced because of a bad firmware update. A simple reset button like the one I described would have saved me a ton of pain and saved JBL money on shipping the speaker both ways. WHY isn't this sort of thing universal?
Because, for every person like you, there are 10 that would just say "Speaker not work. Must buy new speaker." Repair options do not spur new sales.
something. I had to spend hours trying to find a contact form where I could attach a screen shot of 1 star reviews on my FB business page that stated I sell weed at my store from several fake accounts Found some forms but they would not post finally found one. Got a reply a few days ago basically saying nothing and to block those people. Well that's great but still wont remove reviews that say I well weed I my store.
Since I already spend $750 advertising on FB I decided to keep my page for now and disable the reviews. Once my site is finished I'll be removing the FB for good same with Google+ Not sure what they did but the page I keep up to date synched with FB posts no longer shows on searches but a new one I didn't create is showing with no page updates.
Seriously social media is useless for small business. I'd get better results standing on a corner of a busy street giving out flyer.
He's not against NASCAR. He just laments that the goals of NASCAR are about power and speed only and less about efficiency and economy. For example, the limit of fuel in a NASCAR race is not the amount of fuel but the time it takes to fuel a car. If there was some tweaking so that racing teams had to take fuel economy into account, it would be more interesting to him. I think currently the cars get maybe 3 mpg.
NASCAR teams would LOVE to run a race on one tank of gas or less. Power and speed AND fuel economy are all important. Pitting kills position. It sucks. If you actually watched races, you'd see that many racers lose because they ran out of gas trying to stretch their tank to the finish line. They are not working to see how much fuel they can dump through their engines.
80% of them both don't give a shit about *any* of the applied science behind somewhat-high-performance racing, *and* are educationally and constitutionally incapable of *understanding* said science. Many of them *might* spout the buzzwords that they hear the announcers say, but they have *no* real understanding of what any of that actually means.
There are *too* many functionally illiterate, shit-beer-drinking rednecks for scientists and engineers to spend their *very* limited time trying to reach a substantial fraction of them. There are *far* more important things for a smart, capable person to do. Leave that shit to marketing organizations who specialize in such things.
Maybe true - but maybe you can get the 20% and not actually antagonize the other 80%. You'll never win the hearts of 100%, but you don't piss off the 20% by lumping them in with the 80% that are hopeless.
Facebook sucks. You can post any old shit on Slashdot, and it always had a Dislike button (we call it Mod -1 Troll, but it is the same thing).
Here you have freedom to let your inner Troll run free! Many here think I am a complete asshole, but Slashdot keeps giving me mod points for my "contributions". It's so empowering!
If Bill Nye actually visited pit row in a NASCAR race he'd see that there is a hell of a lot of applied science being employed to eek out a bit more performance and mileage out of these vehicles. It isn't a drag strip - stopping for gas in NASCAR costs time and position and the teams would love to run the whole race without pitting. There are a lot of brains behind NASCAR.
A lot of performance improvement applied to commercial vehicles comes from NASCAR, believe it or not. You need to look past the BMC-drinking fans in the crowd that are there for the crashes and actually see what is happening in the pits.
Bill, just a reminder, you don't get racing fans to embrace science by calling them illiterate, shit-beer-drinking rednecks. You do this by showing where science is applied in things that they already love, and let their interest take off from there. I am a proponent of science too, and you don't help the cause by being an elitist prick in a bowtie.
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Eff K Street, I want this museum right in the middle of the Mall, facing the Capitol Building. I want it lit up at night, with a screen illuminated with the name of the latest political scumbag to get caught shown in 20 ft tall letters. I want the astronauts on the ISS to see this building from orbit.
For Anthony Weiner's selfies?
He he... you said Weiner.
The Smithsonian should open up a National Museum of Political Corruption right on the Mall in Washington D.C, between the Capitol and the White House. There is plenty of source material there, and more coming daily. Maybe some public shaming would actually get these twits to...oh, I don't know, WORK FOR THE PEOPLE!
No joking, there is a tendency for mental health disorders to run in families. Not just genetic or hereditary issues, some aspects are environmental. If the parents have disorders, there is a high probability that the children will have disorders.
Sadly, some folks don't know what "normal" is, and manage to function with their disorders, thinking that they are "normal". And the kids grow up thinking that what they are experiencing is normal. And so on, and so on. Until someone realizes everything is broken and crashes, hurting or killing themselves to get out of the cycle.
I hope this mom gets some help.
Just steal a car before you start scoping out the whores. It works in GTA.
Jack - that wooshing sound you just heard is the sound of my OP flying over your head. Don't be frightened.
I'm sorry, but you're clearly not cut out for doing (or blocking) nefarious deeds.
Given that we've just had a couple of high profile examples of actual terrorist attacks, you'll note a lack of:
You will note an oversupply of:
Yes? I also noted the lack of airliners and box knives as well. What's your point?
We didn't used to, but after two world wars with Europe and Asia causing shit and shooting us first, we decided to declare open season on...everything. When in doubt, shoot it. When still in doubt, shoot it again.
Hmmm...I could see some nefarious person or organization painting an Amazon logo on their drone, loading it up with 55 lbs of plastic explosive/ anthrax spores/[insert mayhem causing substance or object here], and flying it off to fuck up someone's day. It would look "legit", as you don't have to mock up a delivery truck to put the package on someone's doorstep.
It will be interesting when a bunch of senators and congressmen suddenly get packages from "Amazon" delivered to their doorstep - all at once.
And if you're wondering, I'm still not a terrorist, you damned infidels.
Yet we abandoned an existing orbital capability in 2011 and put all our shuttles into museums so we could buy rides from the Russians.
And we're still years away from putting a human in orbit. Hell, they are just talking about an unmanned spin around the moon, in 3 years (maybe).
We went from JFK's speech to boots on the Moon in less than 10 years. We've now been dicking around with PowerPoints describing Constellation and now Ares/Orion for 10 years already, and we're still many years (and election cycles) away from sending an astronaut anywhere with any of it. This is all to simply to get back to orbit and maybe the Moon, stuff we did 46 years ago.
You can argue about the date when it happened, but the balls have been lost.
We can't even send a monkey anymore, because that would offend PETA. This country lost its collective balls in the 1960s. We can't cope with any risk or danger anymore. This is why we'll never walk on the moon again. This is also why the terrorists are running our lives these days.
Would a cubesat be capable to communicating back to earth from beyond low orbit? If it cannot talk it may as well be inert.
(well, I suppose one might test miniature drive system without comms)
How would you know if your system worked without communication?
Prove it. Prove to me that bulk surveillance ends Sunday.
If you trust this, you're a fool.
It gives me flatulence just thinking about it.
This +100.
Dealers need to step aside and get out of the fucking way of the sale. It's a stupid business model. There is no value in having a middleman in this process anymore.
Put a firm price tag on the damned vehicle along with a spec sheet - haggling over the price of the of an expensive item like a car like you are in some Algerian bazaar pisses people off. Have an attendant handle the keys and accompany road tests. Done.
I'll never go to a chain dealership to buy a car. I've bought my last several cars off lease from a used car seller who puts a price tag on the car, and simply hands you the keys for a road test and asks that you have the car back by closing time. Their prices are good because they don't have to pay a bunch of salespeople to play fucking mind games with customers all damned day, and they have good sales volume. They have an awesome local reputation.
I have a JBL speaker that I had to ship back to the manufacturer to be replaced because of a bad firmware update. A simple reset button like the one I described would have saved me a ton of pain and saved JBL money on shipping the speaker both ways. WHY isn't this sort of thing universal?
Because, for every person like you, there are 10 that would just say "Speaker not work. Must buy new speaker." Repair options do not spur new sales.
...that I am totally not a terrorist, despite my nickname.
Damned infidels...
something. I had to spend hours trying to find a contact form where I could attach a screen shot of 1 star reviews on my FB business page that stated I sell weed at my store from several fake accounts Found some forms but they would not post finally found one. Got a reply a few days ago basically saying nothing and to block those people. Well that's great but still wont remove reviews that say I well weed I my store.
Since I already spend $750 advertising on FB I decided to keep my page for now and disable the reviews. Once my site is finished I'll be removing the FB for good same with Google+ Not sure what they did but the page I keep up to date synched with FB posts no longer shows on searches but a new one I didn't create is showing with no page updates.
Seriously social media is useless for small business. I'd get better results standing on a corner of a busy street giving out flyer.
Dude, weed sells itself. Stop working so hard.
...what was the $1 million for? What did the taxpayers get out this?
This is what Bill Nye actually said in his book.
"I get it.
No, he doesn't fucking get it. See the following:
He's not against NASCAR. He just laments that the goals of NASCAR are about power and speed only and less about efficiency and economy. For example, the limit of fuel in a NASCAR race is not the amount of fuel but the time it takes to fuel a car. If there was some tweaking so that racing teams had to take fuel economy into account, it would be more interesting to him. I think currently the cars get maybe 3 mpg.
NASCAR teams would LOVE to run a race on one tank of gas or less. Power and speed AND fuel economy are all important. Pitting kills position. It sucks. If you actually watched races, you'd see that many racers lose because they ran out of gas trying to stretch their tank to the finish line. They are not working to see how much fuel they can dump through their engines.
80% of them both don't give a shit about *any* of the applied science behind somewhat-high-performance racing, *and* are educationally and constitutionally incapable of *understanding* said science. Many of them *might* spout the buzzwords that they hear the announcers say, but they have *no* real understanding of what any of that actually means.
There are *too* many functionally illiterate, shit-beer-drinking rednecks for scientists and engineers to spend their *very* limited time trying to reach a substantial fraction of them. There are *far* more important things for a smart, capable person to do. Leave that shit to marketing organizations who specialize in such things.
Maybe true - but maybe you can get the 20% and not actually antagonize the other 80%. You'll never win the hearts of 100%, but you don't piss off the 20% by lumping them in with the 80% that are hopeless.
Facebook sucks. You can post any old shit on Slashdot, and it always had a Dislike button (we call it Mod -1 Troll, but it is the same thing).
Here you have freedom to let your inner Troll run free! Many here think I am a complete asshole, but Slashdot keeps giving me mod points for my "contributions". It's so empowering!
If Bill Nye actually visited pit row in a NASCAR race he'd see that there is a hell of a lot of applied science being employed to eek out a bit more performance and mileage out of these vehicles. It isn't a drag strip - stopping for gas in NASCAR costs time and position and the teams would love to run the whole race without pitting. There are a lot of brains behind NASCAR.
A lot of performance improvement applied to commercial vehicles comes from NASCAR, believe it or not. You need to look past the BMC-drinking fans in the crowd that are there for the crashes and actually see what is happening in the pits.
Bill, just a reminder, you don't get racing fans to embrace science by calling them illiterate, shit-beer-drinking rednecks. You do this by showing where science is applied in things that they already love, and let their interest take off from there. I am a proponent of science too, and you don't help the cause by being an elitist prick in a bowtie.
Where's the "difficult puzzle"?
The "difficult puzzle" is that due process is a drag to the government and they want a legal precedent to continue to ignore the constitution, badly.
It's called "Spring" in Australia, you insensitive clod!