uh... they're minors, there are rules. If you don't behave yourself on the internet, and I'll know, then I'll revoke access. No backsies, no apologies, no second chances. Don't like those rules? Fine, don't use the internet here. Go to the library and try the shit you're thinking of pulling here, see how fast you end in Juvi. I'll wave as I drive past.
This. The mere suggestion that a device may be used to cause harm (no matter its primary purpose) is enough for these pricks to automatically assume that that was the intent. Cases such as this won't go to jury trial, it'll be on the book as a summary offence, triable by a single magistrate in a fifteen minute Star Chamber hearing.
Afghanistan isn't economically bankrupt, they supply 90% of the world's opium - guarded by the US Army, the sweetest smelling army in the world.
Somewhere around I have a graph charting the flow of opium (actually, it's yields). From the mid-80's to 2001 it was on a steady decline, then it zeroed, then between 2002 and 2010 it rapidly became the single most cultivated crop in the region, beating everything else combined. Including oil and lithium output.
think you'll find it's a dodge to collect taxes, since GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COLLECT TAXES OF ANY KIND DURING PEACETIME.
That is a holdover from Magna Carta. Incorporating a local, State or National Government to give it legal status puts it in the same type of entity as a for-profit company (as in, it can now contract). As such, it is thus legally entitled to collect taxes from those who make use of its services, however tangentially (passing through? Pay your road tax. Living here? Pay your rates. Use public utilities? Pay for them. Can't be done by a Government, can be done by an incorporated body with legal personality).
This is also why the Federal Reserve answers not to the US Government (even though on the face of it, it is a Government department, evidenced by the several recent sideways promotions between eg, the FBI, local and State police, the local legislature, the Treasury & IRS, and Capitol Hill), but to the five largest banks in Europe. Partly because it is then entitled to collect taxes via the IRS and consolidate through the Treasury, partly because it was the only way the United States could get its multitude of trade agreements with Europe ratified. The banks already held all the Aces and they refuse to deal directly with Governments (wouldn't you?).
Disclosure: I am a Lawyer. I am not your Lawyer. Seek advice from a Law Society member (of which I am not and never have been) should you feel the need.
gyros to change orientation, sure, but to fire projectiles at a moving target you have to fire ahead of it so the projectiles and the target meet. Also bear in mind that according to classical physics models, the amount of thrust used to fire the projectiles that way will push your gun and whatever it's mounted to, backward with the exact same force.
that was Wing Commander (the movie with Freddie Prinze Jr., and Saffron Burrows), not Voyager. Voyager had a smart missile (actually a sentient missile, can you say "RIPOFF!"? Actually it was very deliberately based on the John Carpenter book (and movie) "Dark Star") called the Series 5 Tactical Armour Unit ("Warhead", series 5 episode 25 ohyourgodiamageek)
uh... no. Pluto was discovered through the use of a new development for the time, a blink comparator. This doesn't subtract one image from another, it switches between two aligned photographic plates with enough speed that the human eye can pick out differences between the two images. Subtractive processing is a newer development that takes (the same?) two aligned plates, subtracts one from the other and whatever's left is the thing that's moved. Blink comparison can't be done electronically, subtractive processing is the logical development with the advent of image processing software and in fact can be done on pretty much any feature-rich image processor (even Microsoft Paint 6.1 can do it)
mod up. Or I would if I hadn't commented. Making a 120 degree plane change in KSP requires a RIDICULOUS amount of delta v. Almost certainly more than it took took to get into orbit in the first place.
close quarters combat wouldn't need a big fat engine on the back and tiny arsed little RCS thrusters, quite the opposite. You need big fat RCS and a teeny tiny little farty fucking main engine, otherwise you're a barely steerable missile.
J J Abrams gave real physics a nod in the 2009 reboot - did any of you notice?
SPOILER ALERT!
During the initial battle scene with the Enterprise, one of the torpedo hits causes a section to depressurise. As a hapless crewmember is blown out into the void, the soundtrack goes silent to reflect the fact that sound doesn't propagate in a vacuum. Even the music stops. Just for an instant. Then dramatic license takes over again and we're back to Hollywood physics.
Melanie Shaw: all over the news. Robert Green: front page of ukcolumn.org. Jack Frost: jailed for saying hello to his own daughter, hit the news, wrote the book "The Gulag of the Family Courts". Dr. Kelly: died suddenly of a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect (aged nearly 70!?) after exposing the Iraq Dossier as a big fat lie (sorry, said John Kelly, means to say David Kelly, so many names floating around...). The final point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... is ongoing and growing in scope and scale on a DAILY BASIS.
um... can we start with protecting ourselves against the Government?
They steal our children. Provable fact. (3500 children of foreign nationals stolen for financial gain since 2005 - that they've admitted to, and I hold the evidence). They abduct people and incarcerate them when they complain about the way they were treated in state-run children's homes. Also a provable fact (Melanie Shaw, Robert Green, Jack Frost, to name but three). They murder their own. Also a provable fact (Dr. John Kelly). They cover paedophiles in their own ranks. Also a provable fact (A number greater than zero (as documented in the public domain) of Members of Parliament have criminal records for sexual offences against children).
my local SB even if they know you by name (I have long histories with a lot of coffee shops around here, most of them know me by name and how I like my coffee), none of them write names on cups. They all, for large orders (more than 4 cups) write what's actually in the cups.
I don't think low-bidding should ever be a consideration. That's how Thiokol got in to the STS and boardroom creep killed Challenger. The bottom line overrode safety considerations - the engineers said "You launch, the vehicle will explode", the board disagreed. They wanted to save however many thousands of Dollars on yet another launch hold and just fucking light that thing off. The ultimate price in human life was collected.
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...or you could do it yourself, BASH is open source.
only took them five days to fix from the disclosure.
Clearly English as a first or second language is not a prerequisite for employment at this firm.
system-grade comparison of AV for the consumer??
That'd give the consumer unfair advantage over the AV companies in being able to make an *informed* choice, don't you think?
I see some serious resistance to this.
uh... they're minors, there are rules. If you don't behave yourself on the internet, and I'll know, then I'll revoke access. No backsies, no apologies, no second chances. Don't like those rules? Fine, don't use the internet here. Go to the library and try the shit you're thinking of pulling here, see how fast you end in Juvi. I'll wave as I drive past.
This. The mere suggestion that a device may be used to cause harm (no matter its primary purpose) is enough for these pricks to automatically assume that that was the intent. Cases such as this won't go to jury trial, it'll be on the book as a summary offence, triable by a single magistrate in a fifteen minute Star Chamber hearing.
...I know, old and tired argument, but when are they going to start arresting automakers for causing traffic fatalities?
Caesar was felled by a dagger.
Just saying.
Afghanistan isn't economically bankrupt, they supply 90% of the world's opium - guarded by the US Army, the sweetest smelling army in the world.
Somewhere around I have a graph charting the flow of opium (actually, it's yields). From the mid-80's to 2001 it was on a steady decline, then it zeroed, then between 2002 and 2010 it rapidly became the single most cultivated crop in the region, beating everything else combined. Including oil and lithium output.
Oh, we're not talking about America now, right? :coughIRScoughFBIcoughTreasurycoughprivatearmiescough:
think you'll find it's a dodge to collect taxes, since GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COLLECT TAXES OF ANY KIND DURING PEACETIME.
That is a holdover from Magna Carta. Incorporating a local, State or National Government to give it legal status puts it in the same type of entity as a for-profit company (as in, it can now contract). As such, it is thus legally entitled to collect taxes from those who make use of its services, however tangentially (passing through? Pay your road tax. Living here? Pay your rates. Use public utilities? Pay for them. Can't be done by a Government, can be done by an incorporated body with legal personality).
This is also why the Federal Reserve answers not to the US Government (even though on the face of it, it is a Government department, evidenced by the several recent sideways promotions between eg, the FBI, local and State police, the local legislature, the Treasury & IRS, and Capitol Hill), but to the five largest banks in Europe. Partly because it is then entitled to collect taxes via the IRS and consolidate through the Treasury, partly because it was the only way the United States could get its multitude of trade agreements with Europe ratified. The banks already held all the Aces and they refuse to deal directly with Governments (wouldn't you?).
Disclosure: I am a Lawyer. I am not your Lawyer. Seek advice from a Law Society member (of which I am not and never have been) should you feel the need.
gyros to change orientation, sure, but to fire projectiles at a moving target you have to fire ahead of it so the projectiles and the target meet. Also bear in mind that according to classical physics models, the amount of thrust used to fire the projectiles that way will push your gun and whatever it's mounted to, backward with the exact same force.
that was Wing Commander (the movie with Freddie Prinze Jr., and Saffron Burrows), not Voyager. Voyager had a smart missile (actually a sentient missile, can you say "RIPOFF!"? Actually it was very deliberately based on the John Carpenter book (and movie) "Dark Star") called the Series 5 Tactical Armour Unit ("Warhead", series 5 episode 25 ohyourgodiamageek)
so was every other teenage boy on the planet, how did Michael Shanks get in there first??
uh... no. Pluto was discovered through the use of a new development for the time, a blink comparator. This doesn't subtract one image from another, it switches between two aligned photographic plates with enough speed that the human eye can pick out differences between the two images. Subtractive processing is a newer development that takes (the same?) two aligned plates, subtracts one from the other and whatever's left is the thing that's moved. Blink comparison can't be done electronically, subtractive processing is the logical development with the advent of image processing software and in fact can be done on pretty much any feature-rich image processor (even Microsoft Paint 6.1 can do it)
mod up. Or I would if I hadn't commented. Making a 120 degree plane change in KSP requires a RIDICULOUS amount of delta v. Almost certainly more than it took took to get into orbit in the first place.
close quarters combat wouldn't need a big fat engine on the back and tiny arsed little RCS thrusters, quite the opposite. You need big fat RCS and a teeny tiny little farty fucking main engine, otherwise you're a barely steerable missile.
J J Abrams gave real physics a nod in the 2009 reboot - did any of you notice?
SPOILER ALERT!
During the initial battle scene with the Enterprise, one of the torpedo hits causes a section to depressurise. As a hapless crewmember is blown out into the void, the soundtrack goes silent to reflect the fact that sound doesn't propagate in a vacuum. Even the music stops. Just for an instant. Then dramatic license takes over again and we're back to Hollywood physics.
Melanie Shaw: all over the news. Robert Green: front page of ukcolumn.org. Jack Frost: jailed for saying hello to his own daughter, hit the news, wrote the book "The Gulag of the Family Courts". Dr. Kelly: died suddenly of a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect (aged nearly 70!?) after exposing the Iraq Dossier as a big fat lie (sorry, said John Kelly, means to say David Kelly, so many names floating around...). The final point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... is ongoing and growing in scope and scale on a DAILY BASIS.
my report to evidence the first point: https://www.academia.edu/57099...
The rest is but a websearch away.
um... can we start with protecting ourselves against the Government?
They steal our children. Provable fact. (3500 children of foreign nationals stolen for financial gain since 2005 - that they've admitted to, and I hold the evidence).
They abduct people and incarcerate them when they complain about the way they were treated in state-run children's homes. Also a provable fact (Melanie Shaw, Robert Green, Jack Frost, to name but three).
They murder their own. Also a provable fact (Dr. John Kelly).
They cover paedophiles in their own ranks. Also a provable fact (A number greater than zero (as documented in the public domain) of Members of Parliament have criminal records for sexual offences against children).
selective amnesia also.
my local SB even if they know you by name (I have long histories with a lot of coffee shops around here, most of them know me by name and how I like my coffee), none of them write names on cups. They all, for large orders (more than 4 cups) write what's actually in the cups.
that's where I was going wrong.
Not enough alcohol.
Thanks for that - now I know, I can rectify the deficiency.
I don't think low-bidding should ever be a consideration. That's how Thiokol got in to the STS and boardroom creep killed Challenger. The bottom line overrode safety considerations - the engineers said "You launch, the vehicle will explode", the board disagreed. They wanted to save however many thousands of Dollars on yet another launch hold and just fucking light that thing off. The ultimate price in human life was collected.