What better way would the klukkers have to discredit the outing of their members, than first posting a list with a bunch of innocent non-klukker names on it?
The movies are just "action flicks" with a superficial Trek veneer, and it sounds like that's what this series is going to be. Not particularly interested. I liked Trek at its most thoughtful.
Enterprise should have been good, but they ruined it with the whole stinking fetid pile of "Temporal Cold War". I was really interested in the first steps into the galaxy, the whole "Boomer" culture thing, etc. The fourth season, after Berman and Bragga were dumped, was (with the exception of that unspeakably putrid final epsiode) much more what the series should have been, but by then it was too late.
The story I heard from my instructors in the early 1990's that President Ronald Reagan put a "revenue enhancement" (tax) on storing books in warehouses.
I think what you're referring to is the "Thor Power Tools Decision", which was a ruling by the Supreme Court in 1979.
For extra points, look up who was actually President in 1979.
Back when I worked at Sperry Univac, I started lending out some of my large collection of SF novels. I just did what libraries of that era did: When I took a book to work, I put a 3x5 index card in the book, with the name of the book on the card. If I lent it to someone, I took the card out and put it in the card box I used for that purpose.
I'm sure I could have written something in DMS1100 to run on the Univac 1100/80, but seriously... why? The mini card catalog solved the problem.
I submit that what's already there in the general area of Yucca Mountain, completely uncontained in holes in the ground, is more of a danger than encapsulated waste would ever be.
Go to Google Earth. Search term: "sedan crater". Scan south. See that lunar landscape of craters? Every one of those is a crater from a nuclear weapon test, every one lined with fission products and the unburned percentage of Pu239 from each bomb.
What I want is a simple "Click-bait" button on my browser and the Android Facebook app. When I click it, the site that had the "click-bait" headline is added to my personal [i]index expurgatorius[/i], and as far as my online experience is concerned, it utterly ceases to exist.
I would actually expect global warming to result in fewer and less intense tropical cyclones. These things are heat engines -- they run off the temperature difference between the warm ocean and the colder air coming down from the poles. If the poles warm more than the tropics do, then there's less energy available, thermodynamically, to run the things. (Thus the less intense hurricane seasons lately may be evidence of global warming.)
If you have a 'bandwagon effect' in the field, and one side is far more likely to get government grants than the other, what then? I'm not talking about any sort of dishonesty on the part of any of the scientists, just that those who are pre-disposed to one side of the issue are going to have a whole lot easier time getting grants, and getting through the bandwagon-encircled dispensers of diplomas. Someone who thinks unpopular thoughts on the matter is probably going to decide it would be more fruitful for him to pick a different field. Someone whose studies lead in an unpopular direction may run into enough headwind that she decides to switch to another field of study mid-degree.
It comes down to... do you believe in evolution or don't you? How much selection pressure does it take to drive science as a social construct in a direction that diverges from the "real science", the actual facts of the matter? How far can that selection pressure drive "the scientific consensus" from the facts?
(Cue reference to T. D. Lysenko.)
Continuing to dump huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere is probably a bad idea, and I consider it inadvisable. Starving civilization of energy is likely to be a worse idea, though. The trouble is, of those who claim to be most concerned about CO2, the ones who will countenance any move to replace coal with the energy source we have that is capable of producing that amount of energy is pretty dang small. (Hansen is actually one of those few.)
Cue "No Nukes Shut 'Em All Down Now" shrieking from the usual suspects...
LastPass keeps a local copy of the encrypted password DB, so if it can't connect, it will use the local copy. Though, really, if you don't have a network connection, what are you going to do with the password? For me, the main feature there was, if lastpass.com were to go away forever without warning, or get acquired by someone truly evil, I've still got all my passwords.
It is being reported the Nobel Committee is attempting to revive waning strength (and interest) in the Arab Spring uprisings.
I don't see the positive "peace" value in replacing unpleasant authoritarian regimes with totalitarian Islamist theocracies, which is where most of the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings have ended up.
Before I went to LastPass, I tried first pwsafe, then KeePass. pwsafe (at the time) wasn't cross-platform enough, but I liked it enough better than KeePass that I was in the process of moving everything back to pwsafe, and just using it from a windows virtual box on Mac and Linux. Then I read a tear-down report on LastPass by a professional paranoid that convinced me that it was plenty secure enough, switched to it, and I've liked it best of all.
I sure hope Logmein doesn't ruin it.... (crossing fingers, toes, and eyes.)
Now, Android support is a non-negotiable, as is the automatic syncing across all devices that use it. I see that KeePass now has multiple Android versions, so OK on that score. Saving the DB on Dropbox or equivalent... maybe that could be workable, but I don't see it being nearly as automatically transparent as LastPass's syncing.
They probably used polyethylene film for the movie, but in the book, it's described as some kind of super-plastic sheeting. And it's not just duct tape. I agree, they probably should have made it look different in the movie.
Regarding Bruno and the plurality of worlds thing... A hundred years or so earlier, Nicholas of Cusa was also talking about the possibility of a plurality of worlds. You know what the Catholic Church did to him?
Returning one that doesn't work properly is substantially more difficult with toilets. I bought one, one of this highest rated for "flushing ability" short of the noisy pressurized type, and after months of flush six times, plunger, flush six more times, give up and fill up a two-gallon bucket to pour in...
I extended the overflow pipe in the tank and raised the water level an inch. Now, it works fine. And uses less water over all, because it's not six times as much water as before.
There was another social media firestorm about school administration stupidity a while back... A kid wrote a story about a zombie invasion for an English class assignment, someone thought he was writing about shooting up the school, massive overreaction, what a bunch of idiots traumatizing this poor kid for no reason...
Then, much latter, it turned out that very little in the story as blasted around social media had any factual basis. It was not a story. There was no English class assignment. He actually had tried to recruit accomplices. There actually was reason to be alarmed.
Now, I have no idea whatsoever if there was any legitimate reason for anything that happened here. Clearly, they knew it wasn't actually a bomb, but did the kid jokingly say "Oh, yeah, it's a bomb, ha ha ha"? No idea. I can easily imaging school administration stupidity on the level portrayed in the story as it's being told by the kid, his family, and his lawyer. But like in the other case, the other side is seriously limited in what they can say. When everything comes out, this may end up being as big an embarrassment for the people who go flying off the handle over some social media flurry as the previous case was.
Heh... My favorite science teacher back in high school blew out the fume hood with a zinc dust/sulfur reload of an Estes model rocket engine. One of his demos had two police officers bursting into the room. (That one was actually completely harmless; he was demoing electrolysis of water, bubbling the stoichiometric results through soapy water, and lighting the bubbles to the delight of all. Made a crack like a.22. It just so happened that there had been some riots earlier, so there was police presence in the school, and when they heard what sounded like a.22...)
The last straw, I think, was the accidentally dropped bottle of butyric acid. Harmless enough, but... the smell... He didn't come back the next year, alas. He was enrolled in a PhD program last I heard.
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People won't want to spend an extra hour per day commuting.
An extra hour a day?
I went to Google Maps and computed how much time it would take me to use public transit to get to work.
Three hours each way, as opposed to 30-40 minutes driving my Prius.
That's almost five hours out of my life, every single working day
That's far more than "minimal" personal sacrifice.
What better way would the klukkers have to discredit the outing of their members, than first posting a list with a bunch of innocent non-klukker names on it?
The movies are just "action flicks" with a superficial Trek veneer, and it sounds like that's what this series is going to be. Not particularly interested. I liked Trek at its most thoughtful.
Enterprise should have been good, but they ruined it with the whole stinking fetid pile of "Temporal Cold War". I was really interested in the first steps into the galaxy, the whole "Boomer" culture thing, etc. The fourth season, after Berman and Bragga were dumped, was (with the exception of that unspeakably putrid final epsiode) much more what the series should have been, but by then it was too late.
The story I heard from my instructors in the early 1990's that President Ronald Reagan put a "revenue enhancement" (tax) on storing books in warehouses.
I think what you're referring to is the "Thor Power Tools Decision", which was a ruling by the Supreme Court in 1979.
For extra points, look up who was actually President in 1979.
Back when I worked at Sperry Univac, I started lending out some of my large collection of SF novels. I just did what libraries of that era did: When I took a book to work, I put a 3x5 index card in the book, with the name of the book on the card. If I lent it to someone, I took the card out and put it in the card box I used for that purpose.
I'm sure I could have written something in DMS1100 to run on the Univac 1100/80, but seriously... why? The mini card catalog solved the problem.
I submit that what's already there in the general area of Yucca Mountain, completely uncontained in holes in the ground, is more of a danger than encapsulated waste would ever be.
Go to Google Earth. Search term: "sedan crater". Scan south. See that lunar landscape of craters? Every one of those is a crater from a nuclear weapon test, every one lined with fission products and the unburned percentage of Pu239 from each bomb.
Well, let's put it this way... using JCL is sort of like reading The Necronomicon.... until you understand it
I'm too used to using BBcode formatting. Why can't everyone just use html? *grumble*
What I want is a simple "Click-bait" button on my browser and the Android Facebook app. When I click it, the site that had the "click-bait" headline is added to my personal [i]index expurgatorius[/i], and as far as my online experience is concerned, it utterly ceases to exist.
I would actually expect global warming to result in fewer and less intense tropical cyclones. These things are heat engines -- they run off the temperature difference between the warm ocean and the colder air coming down from the poles. If the poles warm more than the tropics do, then there's less energy available, thermodynamically, to run the things. (Thus the less intense hurricane seasons lately may be evidence of global warming.)
I wonder how much of it is selection pressure.
If you have a 'bandwagon effect' in the field, and one side is far more likely to get government grants than the other, what then? I'm not talking about any sort of dishonesty on the part of any of the scientists, just that those who are pre-disposed to one side of the issue are going to have a whole lot easier time getting grants, and getting through the bandwagon-encircled dispensers of diplomas. Someone who thinks unpopular thoughts on the matter is probably going to decide it would be more fruitful for him to pick a different field. Someone whose studies lead in an unpopular direction may run into enough headwind that she decides to switch to another field of study mid-degree.
It comes down to ... do you believe in evolution or don't you? How much selection pressure does it take to drive science as a social construct in a direction that diverges from the "real science", the actual facts of the matter? How far can that selection pressure drive "the scientific consensus" from the facts?
(Cue reference to T. D. Lysenko.)
Continuing to dump huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere is probably a bad idea, and I consider it inadvisable. Starving civilization of energy is likely to be a worse idea, though. The trouble is, of those who claim to be most concerned about CO2, the ones who will countenance any move to replace coal with the energy source we have that is capable of producing that amount of energy is pretty dang small. (Hansen is actually one of those few.)
Cue "No Nukes Shut 'Em All Down Now" shrieking from the usual suspects...
... 3... 2... 1...
Flash: A reeking bottomless pit of zero-day vulnerabilities, all different.
LastPass keeps a local copy of the encrypted password DB, so if it can't connect, it will use the local copy. Though, really, if you don't have a network connection, what are you going to do with the password? For me, the main feature there was, if lastpass.com were to go away forever without warning, or get acquired by someone truly evil, I've still got all my passwords.
It is being reported the Nobel Committee is attempting to revive waning strength (and interest) in the Arab Spring uprisings.
I don't see the positive "peace" value in replacing unpleasant authoritarian regimes with totalitarian Islamist theocracies, which is where most of the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings have ended up.
Before I went to LastPass, I tried first pwsafe, then KeePass. pwsafe (at the time) wasn't cross-platform enough, but I liked it enough better than KeePass that I was in the process of moving everything back to pwsafe, and just using it from a windows virtual box on Mac and Linux. Then I read a tear-down report on LastPass by a professional paranoid that convinced me that it was plenty secure enough, switched to it, and I've liked it best of all.
I sure hope Logmein doesn't ruin it.... (crossing fingers, toes, and eyes.)
Now, Android support is a non-negotiable, as is the automatic syncing across all devices that use it. I see that KeePass now has multiple Android versions, so OK on that score. Saving the DB on Dropbox or equivalent... maybe that could be workable, but I don't see it being nearly as automatically transparent as LastPass's syncing.
Waiting to see how this shakes out...
... what's to prevent more guns being imported disguised as routine cocaine shipments?
They probably used polyethylene film for the movie, but in the book, it's described as some kind of super-plastic sheeting. And it's not just duct tape. I agree, they probably should have made it look different in the movie.
He's also a regular at science fiction conventions, and is usually at Worldcon. (That may change with his new duties, alas.)
Regarding Bruno and the plurality of worlds thing... A hundred years or so earlier, Nicholas of Cusa was also talking about the possibility of a plurality of worlds. You know what the Catholic Church did to him?
They made him a Cardinal.
Simple.
Is something plugged into the OBD port? If so, it's being tested. If not, crank up the NOx emissions.
Returning one that doesn't work properly is substantially more difficult with toilets. I bought one, one of this highest rated for "flushing ability" short of the noisy pressurized type, and after months of flush six times, plunger, flush six more times, give up and fill up a two-gallon bucket to pour in...
I extended the overflow pipe in the tank and raised the water level an inch. Now, it works fine. And uses less water over all, because it's not six times as much water as before.
Google does not reject aps. They may ban them if they are discovered to have maleware...
... But manfully deciding to post none of them.
There was another social media firestorm about school administration stupidity a while back... A kid wrote a story about a zombie invasion for an English class assignment, someone thought he was writing about shooting up the school, massive overreaction, what a bunch of idiots traumatizing this poor kid for no reason...
Then, much latter, it turned out that very little in the story as blasted around social media had any factual basis. It was not a story. There was no English class assignment. He actually had tried to recruit accomplices. There actually was reason to be alarmed.
Now, I have no idea whatsoever if there was any legitimate reason for anything that happened here. Clearly, they knew it wasn't actually a bomb, but did the kid jokingly say "Oh, yeah, it's a bomb, ha ha ha"? No idea. I can easily imaging school administration stupidity on the level portrayed in the story as it's being told by the kid, his family, and his lawyer. But like in the other case, the other side is seriously limited in what they can say. When everything comes out, this may end up being as big an embarrassment for the people who go flying off the handle over some social media flurry as the previous case was.
Heh... My favorite science teacher back in high school blew out the fume hood with a zinc dust/sulfur reload of an Estes model rocket engine. One of his demos had two police officers bursting into the room. (That one was actually completely harmless; he was demoing electrolysis of water, bubbling the stoichiometric results through soapy water, and lighting the bubbles to the delight of all. Made a crack like a .22. It just so happened that there had been some riots earlier, so there was police presence in the school, and when they heard what sounded like a .22...)
The last straw, I think, was the accidentally dropped bottle of butyric acid. Harmless enough, but... the smell... He didn't come back the next year, alas. He was enrolled in a PhD program last I heard.