The statement about not wanting to scare the kids is patent politicized distraction.
When someone mentions it, ask them what they think the kids felt about the two armed secret service agents dangling in the cieling space over their heads.
I'm not going to update this, I'm just going to let it work for itself.
Guy is sitting in his upper berth in a sleeper car and hears a strange noise below him. He peeks over, and there's a woman down there, unhooking a prosthetic leg.
He watches a little more, as she pops out her false teeth and a glass eye.
She rolls up her sleeve and starts to detach her arm, when she spies him out of her remaining eye.
"What do you want?" she stage-whispers.
"You know what I want," he says, "just unscrew it and throw it up here."
The problem with satellites is it's not like you can just climb down into the bomb bay and turn them on to existentialism and hope they'll convince themselves they don't exist so they'll disarm.
Sure. Acceptance is sigmoidally[1] related to effectiveness.
You'll never get 100% effectiveness of a policy, but below a certain acceptance level you'll get almost no effectiveness, and above a slightly higher acceptance level you'll get almost total effectiveness.
Working to decrease acceptance is the opposite of political effectiveness; and the people working the system now are working against themselves, and getting us killed in the process. So they try to prevent us from knowing how to kill, as though that will prevent others from killing us.
If a model rocket was a Glock, this wouldn't just be a story on a corner of/.
[1] Like this sigmoid with translation and scaling to fit in the box from (0,0) to (1,1).
The people currently in charge think that knowledge is dangerous, so they seek to keep people from obtaining it.
If they only learned that making people appreciate what you're doing makes them not hate you, then they'll find a way to live in peace in a world where an ounce of chemicals can kill millions.
It was the beginning of the Millennium that begins with a '2'; and since when do I need a reason to party hearty, d00d? I'm getting shitty later this afternoon just because Tuesday is $2 Wings day at The Vine.
Not feeling weight is not the same as lacking weight. "Freefall" doesn't work, because he's free-rising. "Orbit" is better, if he has any angular momentum, because all gravitational trajectories below escape energy are (nutated and/or precessed)elliptical orbits about the center of the Earth, even the eccentric ones that cause you to impact the atmosphere (or the surface), but most people won't understand that because they think orbits are happy unimpeded circles.
We don't have a good, single word for the act of riding the gravity well without other forces being applied. That I can think of. I don't do crossword puzzles straight through the first time, so there might be one. If I only knew what 9-across was...
It's not "microgravity" either. Gravity is still very significant at those altitudes. At 100km your distance from the center of the Earth is only 2% greater, leading to about a 2% decrease in g.
The general-relativistic effects of the gravity well are still highly significant.
You'd have an easier time arguing the semantics of weightlessness than reaching "microgravity" within 7 billion km of the planet.
...they describe weightlessness as though it's a property of leaving the atmosphere...
He became "weightless" the instant he cut the thrust, because then the only acceleration acting on the aircraft was gravity. I.e., he still had weight, but he was unable to feel it, because he was coasting freely along with it.
We need a reality-skiffy series about the creators of Bab 5 invading the offices of Paramount to take over Star Trek, complete with tasers and forehead makeup.
Here's the things I've noticed so far leading to the bug; some may be relevant, some may not:
operations performed in firefox and thunderbird leading to crash:
firefox: opening new tabs opening pages in new tabs opening pages in new windows closing tabs closing windows going back and forth between loaded pages
thunderbird: sorting and re-sorting mail folders opening webpages from mail folders deleting messages undeleting messages dragging messages from inbox to folders opening JPEG images, which pops up the dialog box to select the client, selecting the default
Slashdot Mirror
Why do some people think that they have the right to deface property they don't own in any way?
Some buildings benefit from a hundred years of "patina", and marring that affects their value.
Not only that, but it reduces the presentability of the neighborhood, reducing property values for everyone.
And it's just selfish, stupid, and ugly.
The statement about not wanting to scare the kids is patent politicized distraction.
When someone mentions it, ask them what they think the kids felt about the two armed secret service agents dangling in the cieling space over their heads.
What's interesting is that I don't recall ever googling slashdot...
The only thing that changed is we're all making a fuckload less money for providing magic to stupid people who already have money.
Amazon is the SCO of retail.
Amazon is the Wal-Mart of the future.
I call prior art!
I have first-hand knowledge that the US Army invented the clusterfuck.
Let there be light.
-Bomb #20
I'm not going to update this, I'm just going to let it work for itself.
Guy is sitting in his upper berth in a sleeper car and hears a strange noise below him. He peeks over, and there's a woman down there, unhooking a prosthetic leg.
He watches a little more, as she pops out her false teeth and a glass eye.
She rolls up her sleeve and starts to detach her arm, when she spies him out of her remaining eye.
"What do you want?" she stage-whispers.
"You know what I want," he says, "just unscrew it and throw it up here."
The problem with satellites is it's not like you can just climb down into the bomb bay and turn them on to existentialism and hope they'll convince themselves they don't exist so they'll disarm.
So.
When does SkyNet become self-aware?
Sure. Acceptance is sigmoidally[1] related to effectiveness.
/.
You'll never get 100% effectiveness of a policy, but below a certain acceptance level you'll get almost no effectiveness, and above a slightly higher acceptance level you'll get almost total effectiveness.
Working to decrease acceptance is the opposite of political effectiveness; and the people working the system now are working against themselves, and getting us killed in the process. So they try to prevent us from knowing how to kill, as though that will prevent others from killing us.
If a model rocket was a Glock, this wouldn't just be a story on a corner of
[1] Like this sigmoid with translation and scaling to fit in the box from (0,0) to (1,1).
The people currently in charge think that knowledge is dangerous, so they seek to keep people from obtaining it.
If they only learned that making people appreciate what you're doing makes them not hate you, then they'll find a way to live in peace in a world where an ounce of chemicals can kill millions.
MODS BUMP THAT POST UPWARDS PLEASE SO WE CAN GET OUT OF THE CAGE FARM AND GO HOME
hello mudda...hello fodder...here i am in...the lameness filter...life is good here...things are swimming...i just wish the thing was interrupting...
Um, I don't quite get the point of this thread.
/. has been usurped as the biggest internet-related time waster in the typical office environment?
Are we trying to illuminate the deleterious effect of computers and the internet to their own improvement in worker productivity?
Or are we trying to determine whether
You can't just sit there watching TV, you have to go to work.
So swallow your pride, find a big garbage bag, cut a hole for your head, and get back outside.
>dies at 78
The article was written in base 10 and 6/7ths.
>If I could afford one at the moment,
They missed their market.
Too many "alternative" ideas don't understand that "different" and "popular" are very rarely correlated.
It was the beginning of the Millennium that begins with a '2'; and since when do I need a reason to party hearty, d00d? I'm getting shitty later this afternoon just because Tuesday is $2 Wings day at The Vine.
Not feeling weight is not the same as lacking weight. "Freefall" doesn't work, because he's free-rising. "Orbit" is better, if he has any angular momentum, because all gravitational trajectories below escape energy are (nutated and/or precessed)elliptical orbits about the center of the Earth, even the eccentric ones that cause you to impact the atmosphere (or the surface), but most people won't understand that because they think orbits are happy unimpeded circles.
We don't have a good, single word for the act of riding the gravity well without other forces being applied. That I can think of. I don't do crossword puzzles straight through the first time, so there might be one. If I only knew what 9-across was...
It's not "microgravity" either. Gravity is still very significant at those altitudes. At 100km your distance from the center of the Earth is only 2% greater, leading to about a 2% decrease in g.
The general-relativistic effects of the gravity well are still highly significant.
You'd have an easier time arguing the semantics of weightlessness than reaching "microgravity" within 7 billion km of the planet.
...they describe weightlessness as though it's a property of leaving the atmosphere...
He became "weightless" the instant he cut the thrust, because then the only acceleration acting on the aircraft was gravity. I.e., he still had weight, but he was unable to feel it, because he was coasting freely along with it.
We need a reality-skiffy series about the creators of Bab 5 invading the offices of Paramount to take over Star Trek, complete with tasers and forehead makeup.
James T. Kirk doing a segment on Oprah would be better than any 9 minutes of TNG.
Here's the things I've noticed so far leading to the bug; some may be relevant, some may not:
operations performed in firefox and thunderbird leading to crash:
firefox:
opening new tabs
opening pages in new tabs
opening pages in new windows
closing tabs
closing windows
going back and forth between loaded pages
thunderbird:
sorting and re-sorting mail folders
opening webpages from mail folders
deleting messages
undeleting messages
dragging messages from inbox to folders
opening JPEG images, which pops up the dialog box to select the client, selecting the default
They'll take a really deep breath before they leave the atmosphere.
Ah, the atmosphere.