TFS is, as usual, wrong. The passengers have been rescued, the crew remains aboard and decidedly not safe.
Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea!
Creator, Father, who dost show Thy splendor in the ice and snow, Bless those who toil in summer light And through the cold Antarctic night, As they thy frozen wonders learn; Bless those who wait for their return.
Yes, it's the Navy Hymn, but it will have to do. If you've never been to sea, you'll never grok.
As proof of my thesis, watch the "nuh uhhhh!" replies to this post.
Ah, the old "they laughed at Columbus" defense. Well, they laughed at the Marx Brothers and Bozo the Clown too.
But that's pretty much all the reply you rate - your post is nothing but a rant that isn't insightful and says more about your bias and blinders than anything else.
Sauteing is (relatively) low temperature oil cooking. That is, around 150C, vs frying which is usually around 210-230C depending on what it is.
Um, no. Like the OP, you're badly misinformed about cooking techniques. French fries cook at around 150-175C, as do other items. Frying temperatures range widely depending on the food being cooked.
I was always taught to use olive oil as a flavoring on pastas, salads, bread, etc. but never for actual hot-oil-cooking.
Then you weren't taught very well as olive oil is routinely used for for sauteing. A mixture of olive oil and butter (both low temperature oils) is commonly used in classical French cuisine.
The difference between you and I is that I don't know if it will work. You seem convinced there's no point in even trying. You're like somebody saying a ship will fall off the edge of the world if they sail off beyond the horizon. I'm saying, let's go find out.
Bullshit. The difference between him and you is that's he pointing to specific facts and known problems while you're handwaving and blowing smoke.
At least they'll have found where our limits are, instead of just guessing and naysaying when somebody thinks they can do better than those who came before.
In this case, we aren't "guessing and naysaying" - we're pointing at boiling water and saying "you'll cook your hand if you stick it in there". You're going "looks warm, might as well see what happens, there might be a miracle".
Perhaps Safeway was concerned that viewers of Yamamoto's video might think that aliens, robots, and monsters did Dominick's in, although the Chicago Tribune suggests financial machinations as a more likely culprit: 'By pulling the plug on Chicago [Dominick's], Safeway could not only satisfy [hedge fund] Jana, but also generate a $400 million to $450 million tax benefit.'
The Chicago Tribune is stunningly disconnected from reality then, and is just blaming the billionaires out of habit or to pander to their readers.
The demise of Dominick's has been anticipated for years by those paying attention to the grocery business and Safeway itself has made several attempts to unload it over the last decade. (Long story shot, Safeway bought Dominick's in the late 80's and essentially turned a regional specialty chain into a national generic chain - losing customers in droves in the process. Chigagoland is a notoriously difficult grocery market because of the local culture.) The demand may have been made in September, but the writing has been on the wall since the mid/late 1990's.
They don't plan to develop much of the technology themselves, they're planning to buy it from other companies mostly such as SpaceX. Most of this technology exists already.
Except for all the technologies which don't exist - which is pretty much of all of them except maybe the communications network. Otherwise, they're all (at best) bench prototypes with little if any field testing. But even if all the technologies existed, there still exists the huge task of integrating them into a workable spacecraft, designing and developing said spacecraft, testing, etc... etc...
They plan to get this through sponsorship deals. They're going to broadcast the entire thing on TV. Which makes sense, the olympics receives 6 billion dollars for 1 billion viewers. The moonlanding in 1969 had 500 million viewers. The population of the earth was only 3,5 billion back then and people weren't as well connected as they are now. So imagine how many viewers a colony on Mars would get?
Their problem isn't getting viewers - it's keeping them. Why? Because the programming will be boring as hell. A bunch of people sitting around in a cramped capsule. Comparing this to the spectacle of the Olympics or the first moon landing is ludicrous in the extreme.
Nobody is asking it for it to be 100% safe, that's a strawman of your own creation.
That being said, you've missed the OP's point - which is that this plan isn't unsafe, it isn't even risky, it's inherently suicidal with essentialy zero chance of success.
I don't... So I make a point of ignoring it when it happens and hope that when I do whatever it is that is annoying others will be just as understanding.
That works for my neighbor's lawn mower too. But neither case is any way relevant to internet trolls - which are much more like having heavy metal bands practicing 24/7 in every garage for three blocks around. So, get back to me when you have a reasonable argument and lose the tinfoil.
Smaller websites that are if anything more known for thoughtful commentary have no such program.
While YMMV, all of the smaller websites I visit are moderated, and thus have no need of such a program.
While internet trolls are an issue, anyone that has been on the internet for awhile gets used to them. You just don't take them seriously anymore. You recognize them for what they are and then you "nothing" them. They are deleted if only from your own perception.
If you believe that, you're an idiot. Reporting requirements in the US aren't tied to the currency you're dealing with, they're tied to the fact that your dealing with currency or assets period. The Feds don't care if it's dollars, Bitcoins, or jars of frozen hamster poop. If you're buying it, selling it, or accepting it as payment, then the reporting requirements kick in. (And it really does appear to be that you're stupid enough to believe that, as you repeated it.)
Bitcoin isn't illegal, but it makes a lot of other illegal things a lot easier to hide.
And I bet you believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny too.
There's a reason the most famous bitcoin-using business was a site for drugs dealing.
Yes. Was. Think about that really hard for a minute.
A lot of people in programming think its purely a young mans game. That may have been true in the 60s and 70s but its not any longer. That old guy (or gal) you see shuffling down the street may have once coded up some pretty neat algorithm that helped fly your plane or did your banking or controlled the fuel injection on your car in the 80s.
The latter may be true, but it's neither insightful nor in any way related to your thesis statement.
It would be nice to have an article about retired coders, what they did and their opinions of the dev world now.
Why should I care what their opinions are any more than I care about the Kardashians? They aren't coding in today's environment.
I imagine the bitcoins are currently in a state of limbo - if the government were to spend them it could legitimise the new currency, something that would make a lot of officials uncomfortable.
That's the belief of the tinfoil hat types - however said belief runs completely contrary to law and reality.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It is not illegal to deal in alternative currencies in the US. The Feds don't care if you deal in dollars, Euros, or jars of frozen hamster poop so long as your books are convertible to dollar values and you pay the appropriate taxes in dollars.
The rules and regulations surrounding alternative currency are bone simple. There's dozens of alternative currencies in circulation around the country, and nobody gives a damn - until someone is stupid enough to violate one of the rules.
Even if he somehow could get out of the drug dealer and murder for hire charges he would still have the problem of proving how he legitimately got the money and why he didn't pay taxes on it. Penalties for failing to report tens of millions of dollars in income could easily put him in prison for a decades and would still result in the loss of the bitcoins because he can't prove any legitimate means why which he got them.
Essentially, he's trying to deny what Bitcoin fans/supporters (including Ulbricht himself) have been trying to establish - that Bitcoins are in fact assets with actual value. I suspect this attempt will fail miserably, and as you say he's just shot himself in the foot with a thermonuclear weapon.
Or to put it another way: Bitcoin fans/supporters should be hoping this fails, because a court decision that they are valuable assets and thus subject to seizure will go a long way towards establishing their legitimacy as currency. Much more than than a third rate shopping site or fringe player telecomm accepting them will.
And it's not just big cities either... the same has happened here in the Kitsap County are twice. Once when they built the new sub base at Bangor in the 70's, and again from the late 80's when Seattle grew big on the tech boom.
Folks that bought a house and a little land in what were then fairly remote areas intending to retire there... suddenly found themselves taxed out of them when subdivisions started sprouting up next door.
The police are there to write reports and do light investigation. They are not, and never were, a rapid response force, ready at a moment's notice to alleviate your panic.
Your focus on a single edge case has lead you to an erroneous conclusion.
You seem to forget, there are other services that are reached via 9-1-1... like the fire department and EMS, which *are* rapid response forces. You also seem to forget that there *are* times when the polices and sheriffs are a rapid response force, such as a major traffic accident, to support fire and EMS in the event of a large incident, responding to major robberies, etc... etc...
There is a really small but similar sentiment in Illinois too. The people who live in rural Illinois feel like the people who live in Chicago and the suburban areas surrounding Chicago disproportionately affect Illinois politics. They feel that the state would be better without Chicago.
While there's no separatist sentiment, Washington has the same problem - the largely rural are east of the Cascades feels disenfranchised because of the influence of the much more populous and more urban Puget Sound area. But even within the Puget Sound region, there are splits... over here in west sound, we're far more rural than the Eastside.
If it were something heavy (like the locomotive some are speculating about) it wouldn't be necessary to dig a hole. That's old mud flats, the water table is very high, and there is a LOT of underground water movement. Something heavy enough would gradually sink through the muck until it hit a denser strata.
It's not weight that makes something float or sink, it's the displacement and weight and how they compare to the density of the media the object is in. For instance, a ship floats deeper in fresh water than salt, because fresh water is less dense. And that kinda counts against your theory because mud is very dense and heavy indeed.
Which still leaves unanswered the question - how did that heavy thing get there in the first place? There were railroad tracks and piers running out across those flats, if one collapsed and dropped a locomotive into the mud you'd think it would make the papers and/or be known to local rail fans. (Railfans excel at trivia like that.)
I'm betting on a lost anchor or random pieces of cast iron from an old ship.
The problem is that while current grade level is forty five feet above the machine, historical grade is twenty feet above the machine... Who'd dig a thirty or forty foot deep hole in a swamp to discard an anchor or piece of cast iron? While this is the lowest point of the tunnel, this isn't the lowest point of the historical grade (relative to the tunnel bore), that's a block or two ahead of where the machine is currently stopped.
And before anyone brings up a surveying or mapping error 'back in the day', remember Seattle wasn't settled until the 1850's, and the maps they're working from date from the 1870's to 1890's. On the scale of a city, surveying and mapping technology was pretty good by then and thus the odds of a couple of hundred foot error in the location of grade or a twenty plus foot error in the height of grade are extraordinarily slim indeed. You'd almost be better off investing in a Lotto ticket than in betting on the existence of such an error.
"Some residents said they believe, or want to believe, that a piece of old Seattle, buried in the pell-mell rush of city-building in the 1800s, when a mucky waterfront wetland was filled in to make room for commerce, could be Berthaâ(TM)s big trouble. That theory is bolstered by the fact that the blocked tunnel section is also in the shallowest portion of the route, with the top of the machine only around 45 feet below street grade."
On the other hand, that theory is diminished (if not demolished) by the fact that The Object is twenty feet *below* the historical grade at that location.
And then NASA changed their management. And the new management dropped "belt and suspenders" "managing for Murphy's law" in favor of "managing for success". And they launched Challenger
You say this as if previous management didn't also have blood on their hands. Apollo 1 saw 3 astronauts burnt alive in their capsule.
Flammable materials, pure Oxygen environment, negative pressure preventing door from opening doesn't really smell like "managing for Murphy's law".
And Apollo 12, which was sent to the Moon despite having been hit by lighting and possibly having damage which could not be detected. And Apollo (IIRC) 15, which had a failed cable assembly in the SPS - and which was allowed to go into Lunar orbit even though the mission rules specified a return to Earth. (There are others, but these are the ones that leap to mind off hand.)
Apollo era NASA was lucky, they kept making bets and rolling snake eyes - and then covered up for decades just how big the risks had been and how close they repeatedly came to disaster.
That's true, but what's even sadder is that those damn O-rings should've never even been there in the first place. The SRBs were meant to be a one piece monolithic design.
No, they were never "meant" to be anything - there is no "absolute" Shuttle design from which the existing one was a departure.
However it was changed into a segmented multi piece O-ring design because pork had to be provided to Morton Thiokol at the insistence of the senator from Utah, who held the purse strings. (Thiokol, being in Utah, cannot ship a large one piece by ocean and could only build segmented ones shipped by rail)
No, they were changed to segmented design because nobody could figure out how to cast *one* motor grain with consistent burn properties (the monolithic grain took so long to cure that it stratified) - and the Shuttle required a matched pair. Nor could the figure out how to prevent the grain from flowing out the nozzle (the weight of the monolithic grain exceeded the strength of the grain material, resulting in the grain creeping under it's own weight). Not to mention the problem of handling a million plus pound motor without damaging it (as little as 3mm flex over the length of the casing could delaminate the grain from the casing and crack the grain).
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TFS is, as usual, wrong. The passengers have been rescued, the crew remains aboard and decidedly not safe.
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
Creator, Father, who dost show
Thy splendor in the ice and snow,
Bless those who toil in summer light
And through the cold Antarctic night,
As they thy frozen wonders learn;
Bless those who wait for their return.
Yes, it's the Navy Hymn, but it will have to do. If you've never been to sea, you'll never grok.
Ah, the old "they laughed at Columbus" defense. Well, they laughed at the Marx Brothers and Bozo the Clown too.
But that's pretty much all the reply you rate - your post is nothing but a rant that isn't insightful and says more about your bias and blinders than anything else.
Um, no. Like the OP, you're badly misinformed about cooking techniques. French fries cook at around 150-175C, as do other items. Frying temperatures range widely depending on the food being cooked.
Then you weren't taught very well as olive oil is routinely used for for sauteing. A mixture of olive oil and butter (both low temperature oils) is commonly used in classical French cuisine.
Bullshit. The difference between him and you is that's he pointing to specific facts and known problems while you're handwaving and blowing smoke.
In this case, we aren't "guessing and naysaying" - we're pointing at boiling water and saying "you'll cook your hand if you stick it in there". You're going "looks warm, might as well see what happens, there might be a miracle".
Perhaps Safeway was concerned that viewers of Yamamoto's video might think that aliens, robots, and monsters did Dominick's in, although the Chicago Tribune suggests financial machinations as a more likely culprit: 'By pulling the plug on Chicago [Dominick's], Safeway could not only satisfy [hedge fund] Jana, but also generate a $400 million to $450 million tax benefit.'
The Chicago Tribune is stunningly disconnected from reality then, and is just blaming the billionaires out of habit or to pander to their readers.
The demise of Dominick's has been anticipated for years by those paying attention to the grocery business and Safeway itself has made several attempts to unload it over the last decade. (Long story shot, Safeway bought Dominick's in the late 80's and essentially turned a regional specialty chain into a national generic chain - losing customers in droves in the process. Chigagoland is a notoriously difficult grocery market because of the local culture.) The demand may have been made in September, but the writing has been on the wall since the mid/late 1990's.
Except for all the technologies which don't exist - which is pretty much of all of them except maybe the communications network. Otherwise, they're all (at best) bench prototypes with little if any field testing. But even if all the technologies existed, there still exists the huge task of integrating them into a workable spacecraft, designing and developing said spacecraft, testing, etc... etc...
Their problem isn't getting viewers - it's keeping them. Why? Because the programming will be boring as hell. A bunch of people sitting around in a cramped capsule. Comparing this to the spectacle of the Olympics or the first moon landing is ludicrous in the extreme.
Nobody is asking it for it to be 100% safe, that's a strawman of your own creation.
That being said, you've missed the OP's point - which is that this plan isn't unsafe, it isn't even risky, it's inherently suicidal with essentialy zero chance of success.
That works for my neighbor's lawn mower too. But neither case is any way relevant to internet trolls - which are much more like having heavy metal bands practicing 24/7 in every garage for three blocks around. So, get back to me when you have a reasonable argument and lose the tinfoil.
While YMMV, all of the smaller websites I visit are moderated, and thus have no need of such a program.
That's your perception, not a universal trait.
The habit of moderating was established and became part of the community ethos before /. became a for profit business.
If you believe that, you're an idiot. Reporting requirements in the US aren't tied to the currency you're dealing with, they're tied to the fact that your dealing with currency or assets period. The Feds don't care if it's dollars, Bitcoins, or jars of frozen hamster poop. If you're buying it, selling it, or accepting it as payment, then the reporting requirements kick in. (And it really does appear to be that you're stupid enough to believe that, as you repeated it.)
And I bet you believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny too.
Yes. Was. Think about that really hard for a minute.
And I quote from your orignal post.
"It would be nice to have an article about retired coders, what they did and their opinions of the dev world now."
The latter may be true, but it's neither insightful nor in any way related to your thesis statement.
Why should I care what their opinions are any more than I care about the Kardashians? They aren't coding in today's environment.
That's the belief of the tinfoil hat types - however said belief runs completely contrary to law and reality.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It is not illegal to deal in alternative currencies in the US. The Feds don't care if you deal in dollars, Euros, or jars of frozen hamster poop so long as your books are convertible to dollar values and you pay the appropriate taxes in dollars.
The rules and regulations surrounding alternative currency are bone simple. There's dozens of alternative currencies in circulation around the country, and nobody gives a damn - until someone is stupid enough to violate one of the rules.
Essentially, he's trying to deny what Bitcoin fans/supporters (including Ulbricht himself) have been trying to establish - that Bitcoins are in fact assets with actual value. I suspect this attempt will fail miserably, and as you say he's just shot himself in the foot with a thermonuclear weapon.
Or to put it another way: Bitcoin fans/supporters should be hoping this fails, because a court decision that they are valuable assets and thus subject to seizure will go a long way towards establishing their legitimacy as currency. Much more than than a third rate shopping site or fringe player telecomm accepting them will.
And it's not just big cities either... the same has happened here in the Kitsap County are twice. Once when they built the new sub base at Bangor in the 70's, and again from the late 80's when Seattle grew big on the tech boom.
Folks that bought a house and a little land in what were then fairly remote areas intending to retire there... suddenly found themselves taxed out of them when subdivisions started sprouting up next door.
Your focus on a single edge case has lead you to an erroneous conclusion.
You seem to forget, there are other services that are reached via 9-1-1... like the fire department and EMS, which *are* rapid response forces. You also seem to forget that there *are* times when the polices and sheriffs are a rapid response force, such as a major traffic accident, to support fire and EMS in the event of a large incident, responding to major robberies, etc... etc...
While there's no separatist sentiment, Washington has the same problem - the largely rural are east of the Cascades feels disenfranchised because of the influence of the much more populous and more urban Puget Sound area. But even within the Puget Sound region, there are splits... over here in west sound, we're far more rural than the Eastside.
It's not weight that makes something float or sink, it's the displacement and weight and how they compare to the density of the media the object is in. For instance, a ship floats deeper in fresh water than salt, because fresh water is less dense. And that kinda counts against your theory because mud is very dense and heavy indeed.
Which still leaves unanswered the question - how did that heavy thing get there in the first place? There were railroad tracks and piers running out across those flats, if one collapsed and dropped a locomotive into the mud you'd think it would make the papers and/or be known to local rail fans. (Railfans excel at trivia like that.)
The problem is that while current grade level is forty five feet above the machine, historical grade is twenty feet above the machine... Who'd dig a thirty or forty foot deep hole in a swamp to discard an anchor or piece of cast iron? While this is the lowest point of the tunnel, this isn't the lowest point of the historical grade (relative to the tunnel bore), that's a block or two ahead of where the machine is currently stopped.
And before anyone brings up a surveying or mapping error 'back in the day', remember Seattle wasn't settled until the 1850's, and the maps they're working from date from the 1870's to 1890's. On the scale of a city, surveying and mapping technology was pretty good by then and thus the odds of a couple of hundred foot error in the location of grade or a twenty plus foot error in the height of grade are extraordinarily slim indeed. You'd almost be better off investing in a Lotto ticket than in betting on the existence of such an error.
"Some residents said they believe, or want to believe, that a piece of old Seattle, buried in the pell-mell rush of city-building in the 1800s, when a mucky waterfront wetland was filled in to make room for commerce, could be Berthaâ(TM)s big trouble. That theory is bolstered by the fact that the blocked tunnel section is also in the shallowest portion of the route, with the top of the machine only around 45 feet below street grade."
On the other hand, that theory is diminished (if not demolished) by the fact that The Object is twenty feet *below* the historical grade at that location.
And Apollo 12, which was sent to the Moon despite having been hit by lighting and possibly having damage which could not be detected. And Apollo (IIRC) 15, which had a failed cable assembly in the SPS - and which was allowed to go into Lunar orbit even though the mission rules specified a return to Earth. (There are others, but these are the ones that leap to mind off hand.)
Apollo era NASA was lucky, they kept making bets and rolling snake eyes - and then covered up for decades just how big the risks had been and how close they repeatedly came to disaster.
No, they were never "meant" to be anything - there is no "absolute" Shuttle design from which the existing one was a departure.
No, they were changed to segmented design because nobody could figure out how to cast *one* motor grain with consistent burn properties (the monolithic grain took so long to cure that it stratified) - and the Shuttle required a matched pair. Nor could the figure out how to prevent the grain from flowing out the nozzle (the weight of the monolithic grain exceeded the strength of the grain material, resulting in the grain creeping under it's own weight). Not to mention the problem of handling a million plus pound motor without damaging it (as little as 3mm flex over the length of the casing could delaminate the grain from the casing and crack the grain).
Because redouble doesn't mean quadruple.