nah dude, you have to try Kerbal Space Program, the asteroids follow Newtonian physics (though it's two-body, nbody is apparently too difficult) right up to the point of impact - where they bounce.
car crashes are relatively common, and generally survivable. Plane crashes are relatively rare - and generally not survivable. Proportionately, you're talking about the same amount of metal per passenger, the difference is kinetic energy. 60mph for a single-vehicle incident on the road, versus 600mph for a plane in a power dive. There's a LOT more energy expended in a plane crash than in a car crash, and I'm not talking about just the mass of the thing.
a geostationary satellite is travelling at just over 3km/sec. With average masses around 9000lb, that's still four tons of metal doing a fair clip by the time it hits the atmosphere should it decide to suddenly come home.
to answer GP (who I assume is an AC): geostationary is by no means arbitrary.
A geostationary orbit is one in which the orbiting body does not move relative to a point on the surface of its parent (in the context case, specifically Earth). This requires a specific orbital distance (22,236 miles*) at a specific inclination (0 to the equator), to maintain a sidereal orbital period of 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds (approximately). which is equal to the sidereal rotation period of Earth - how about that? In a two-body problem this would be simple, but we have this thing called the Moon, and this thing called the Sun, and to a lesser extent every other body with mass in the Universe, to deal with in maintaining a geostationary orbit. NBody physics introduces a certain degree of chaos to orbital predictions.
*this number is known by calculation using: cube root mu over omega squared. Refer to the Wikipedia.
and immediately thought, "isn't that horse kinda dead??"
(*for those who grew up under a rock, MCA, or Microchannel Architecture, was developed by IBM around 1987 as a stopgap technology between ISA (earlier known as AT) (16-bit) and PCI (32-bit) busses. It uses both bus widths and was intended as a backward-compatible bus architecture to supersede ISA. PCI buried it, being three times faster out of the gate and a lot easier to install.)
micropayments don't require normal credit/debit card safeties such as PIN NUMBERS, once a company has your details they can plank through micropayments at will. That shit adds up.
Simple solution: outlaw micropayments. The banks are there ostensibly to look after our financial interests, the tools are already there, let's get their use enforced under ALL payment circumstances.
I should really look at what other states have done and how they've come out of it, from what I hear though (ie pretty much nothing) they've done OK. They've also not done business with Oracle.
I grew up on a housing estate, I went to a school where I knew the names of every one of the other 740 students there and all 44 teachers. I knew where most of them lived as well - every one of them within two miles of my home. That four square miles was way more than a hundred square blocks (though you couldn't really refer to unplanned urban sprawl as being anything like "block"-y, it is certainly more than ten vehicle streets to a side).
yeah, you beat me to it. I've had to "opt out" of the NHS giving my personal data to some private company for pharmaceutical companies to trade in, I've had to "opt out" of HMRC and the DWP giving my personal data to employment agencies who are trying to lock me in to exclusive zero-hours contracts (two things: I don't do exclusive and I DO NOT do zero-hours contracts), I've withdrawn from the TPS because I'm pretty fucking sure those cunts are selling my phone number to telemarketers as a valid number - the TM shit started the same week as I signed up on the telephone preference service on the understanding that a DNC tag was going next to my UNLISTED NUMBER!
why does it need a court case to define contract terms? It's OOTB or it's something which requires a vendor integrator. Which is it? What does the advertising say? Why did Oregon agree to the contract without reading it first? I'm not going to buy a car until I've taken it round the fucking block, okay?
..we go from 520 million light years in our local group to what? 46 billion light years of known universe, shy of 28 billion light years observable? If this new label represents a neighbourhood, then the universe is what, a small town?
I use the bundled capture software that came with my KWorld composite dongle, it's pretty damn nice, though if I'm in a hurry and/or just want to stream through, I use VirtualDub. Either one will use the SVideo/composite/component/1394 inputs of my dongle or my Pinnacle card/jump box (I don't use Pinnacle, never liked it, I just like the hardware). For editing I'll generally fire up a frameserver in VirtualDub for TMPGEnc DVD Author or import directly into Movie Maker (which does what I want it to do, so why fix what ain't broke?), I used to use Nero but always found that to be limited in ability and a bit of a hog.
it's not trespass if it's not causing a nuisance. The second it causes a nuisance, it is trespassing. The law is pretty clear on that. The exception is emergency vehicles and military aircraft. Of course a Harrier jump jet hovering five feet over your daughter's swing set is going to cause a nuisance, but if your home is situated a dozen yards from the end of RAF Bollockstown don't be surprised if you get regular traffic doing low passes fifty feet over your house during normal approach manoeuvres.
Diamond is the hardest substance known to Man. That doesn't stop it being the most brittle. Tap a brilliant cut stone in the right place, it shatters to dust. You can't guarantee that that 150-ton concrete cask is break proof. Nobody can. There is no way to exhaustively test it from every conceivable impact angle. Tap it in the right place, it will shatter.
yep. Driest place on Earth, according to an early edition of the Guinness Book, is the leeward slope of Mount Erebus. Not a drop of rain for 50 million years.
there is nobody stopping you from operating your own drone over your own land, as long as you don't cause a nuisance to others. Their enjoyment of the airspace over your land comes with the same condition: that they don't cause a nuisance to you.
there are no set boundaries on airspace in property. What there is, is reasonable use of airspace such that it does not interfere with others' use of the same airspace. For example, zoning laws mean that buildings are restricted in terms of height (more to do with the density of the ground than what the airspace is used for), but there are some circumstances, such as near airports, that clearly define for reasons of safety, where building construction may *not* encroach, such as approach lanes and ILS beam paths, RADAR sweeps, and other such areas where commercial aircraft flying through might pose a hazard. For reasonable use of airspace, read: you may build a 20-foot high dwelling (which occupies the bottom 20 feet of airspace above your land) and while you may later decide to extend that to 200 feet high, in the meantime easement is implied unless it causes a nuisance. What is above your roof is by implication of it being contiguous with surrounding air space, navigable airspace hence public airspace. The amount of noise generated by jet engines necessitates the restriction on traffic floors for commercial jet aircraft (in England I think it's 1500 feet for subsonic aircraft, supersonic flight is restricted to offshore airspace). You *may* collect some sort of toll on easement *if you have the right and authority to do so* but normally, you do not. CAA authority over public airspace begins and ends with maintaining safe traffic flow, air licensing revenues collected on their behalf actually pays for this (and it's only the commercialisation of airspace and the associated traffic density that necessitates traffic flow control). It ain't some magic oompa loompa thing, it's actual people doing this and people need to eat.
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nah dude, you have to try Kerbal Space Program, the asteroids follow Newtonian physics (though it's two-body, nbody is apparently too difficult) right up to the point of impact - where they bounce.
asteroids are generally too dark to spot (there are exceptions), they're about the same colour and texture as coal to pumice. So, not very reflective.
car crashes are relatively common, and generally survivable. Plane crashes are relatively rare - and generally not survivable.
Proportionately, you're talking about the same amount of metal per passenger, the difference is kinetic energy. 60mph for a single-vehicle incident on the road, versus 600mph for a plane in a power dive. There's a LOT more energy expended in a plane crash than in a car crash, and I'm not talking about just the mass of the thing.
a geostationary satellite is travelling at just over 3km/sec. With average masses around 9000lb, that's still four tons of metal doing a fair clip by the time it hits the atmosphere should it decide to suddenly come home.
yes, that's a very bad assumption to make, since you can achieve a geosynchronous orbit with a periapse of 120 miles.
to answer GP (who I assume is an AC): geostationary is by no means arbitrary.
A geostationary orbit is one in which the orbiting body does not move relative to a point on the surface of its parent (in the context case, specifically Earth). This requires a specific orbital distance (22,236 miles*) at a specific inclination (0 to the equator), to maintain a sidereal orbital period of 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds (approximately). which is equal to the sidereal rotation period of Earth - how about that? In a two-body problem this would be simple, but we have this thing called the Moon, and this thing called the Sun, and to a lesser extent every other body with mass in the Universe, to deal with in maintaining a geostationary orbit. NBody physics introduces a certain degree of chaos to orbital predictions.
*this number is known by calculation using: cube root mu over omega squared. Refer to the Wikipedia.
and still no cure for ebola.
what the fuck is this world about, hm?
and immediately thought, "isn't that horse kinda dead??"
(*for those who grew up under a rock, MCA, or Microchannel Architecture, was developed by IBM around 1987 as a stopgap technology between ISA (earlier known as AT) (16-bit) and PCI (32-bit) busses. It uses both bus widths and was intended as a backward-compatible bus architecture to supersede ISA. PCI buried it, being three times faster out of the gate and a lot easier to install.)
micropayments don't require normal credit/debit card safeties such as PIN NUMBERS, once a company has your details they can plank through micropayments at will. That shit adds up.
Simple solution: outlaw micropayments. The banks are there ostensibly to look after our financial interests, the tools are already there, let's get their use enforced under ALL payment circumstances.
I would concede that, certainly. On the flipside, Oregon's planners might just be miserly cunts with the tech budget...
I should really look at what other states have done and how they've come out of it, from what I hear though (ie pretty much nothing) they've done OK. They've also not done business with Oracle.
I grew up on a housing estate, I went to a school where I knew the names of every one of the other 740 students there and all 44 teachers. I knew where most of them lived as well - every one of them within two miles of my home. That four square miles was way more than a hundred square blocks (though you couldn't really refer to unplanned urban sprawl as being anything like "block"-y, it is certainly more than ten vehicle streets to a side).
silence is not consent: per Munby J in re: G [2008] EWHC 400, para. 56
yeah, you beat me to it. I've had to "opt out" of the NHS giving my personal data to some private company for pharmaceutical companies to trade in, I've had to "opt out" of HMRC and the DWP giving my personal data to employment agencies who are trying to lock me in to exclusive zero-hours contracts (two things: I don't do exclusive and I DO NOT do zero-hours contracts), I've withdrawn from the TPS because I'm pretty fucking sure those cunts are selling my phone number to telemarketers as a valid number - the TM shit started the same week as I signed up on the telephone preference service on the understanding that a DNC tag was going next to my UNLISTED NUMBER!
opt *out*? That should be illegal, how about an opt *in*?
Opt outs piss me off. Takes me away from other stuff I could be doing like posting on slashdot.
why does it need a court case to define contract terms? It's OOTB or it's something which requires a vendor integrator. Which is it? What does the advertising say? Why did Oregon agree to the contract without reading it first? I'm not going to buy a car until I've taken it round the fucking block, okay?
..we go from 520 million light years in our local group to what? 46 billion light years of known universe, shy of 28 billion light years observable? If this new label represents a neighbourhood, then the universe is what, a small town?
Where's the difficulty in conceptualising?
I use the bundled capture software that came with my KWorld composite dongle, it's pretty damn nice, though if I'm in a hurry and/or just want to stream through, I use VirtualDub. Either one will use the SVideo/composite/component/1394 inputs of my dongle or my Pinnacle card/jump box (I don't use Pinnacle, never liked it, I just like the hardware). For editing I'll generally fire up a frameserver in VirtualDub for TMPGEnc DVD Author or import directly into Movie Maker (which does what I want it to do, so why fix what ain't broke?), I used to use Nero but always found that to be limited in ability and a bit of a hog.
it's not trespass if it's not causing a nuisance. The second it causes a nuisance, it is trespassing. The law is pretty clear on that. The exception is emergency vehicles and military aircraft. Of course a Harrier jump jet hovering five feet over your daughter's swing set is going to cause a nuisance, but if your home is situated a dozen yards from the end of RAF Bollockstown don't be surprised if you get regular traffic doing low passes fifty feet over your house during normal approach manoeuvres.
I'll settle for a Roomba, or even a Henry.
Diamond is the hardest substance known to Man. That doesn't stop it being the most brittle. Tap a brilliant cut stone in the right place, it shatters to dust.
You can't guarantee that that 150-ton concrete cask is break proof. Nobody can. There is no way to exhaustively test it from every conceivable impact angle. Tap it in the right place, it will shatter.
*Titanic was unsinkable. Go away.
Oh, to have mod points! My first thought as well. My second thought was "Lucy Liu Bot".
yep. Driest place on Earth, according to an early edition of the Guinness Book, is the leeward slope of Mount Erebus. Not a drop of rain for 50 million years.
there is nobody stopping you from operating your own drone over your own land, as long as you don't cause a nuisance to others. Their enjoyment of the airspace over your land comes with the same condition: that they don't cause a nuisance to you.
there are no set boundaries on airspace in property. What there is, is reasonable use of airspace such that it does not interfere with others' use of the same airspace. For example, zoning laws mean that buildings are restricted in terms of height (more to do with the density of the ground than what the airspace is used for), but there are some circumstances, such as near airports, that clearly define for reasons of safety, where building construction may *not* encroach, such as approach lanes and ILS beam paths, RADAR sweeps, and other such areas where commercial aircraft flying through might pose a hazard. For reasonable use of airspace, read: you may build a 20-foot high dwelling (which occupies the bottom 20 feet of airspace above your land) and while you may later decide to extend that to 200 feet high, in the meantime easement is implied unless it causes a nuisance. What is above your roof is by implication of it being contiguous with surrounding air space, navigable airspace hence public airspace. The amount of noise generated by jet engines necessitates the restriction on traffic floors for commercial jet aircraft (in England I think it's 1500 feet for subsonic aircraft, supersonic flight is restricted to offshore airspace). You *may* collect some sort of toll on easement *if you have the right and authority to do so* but normally, you do not. CAA authority over public airspace begins and ends with maintaining safe traffic flow, air licensing revenues collected on their behalf actually pays for this (and it's only the commercialisation of airspace and the associated traffic density that necessitates traffic flow control). It ain't some magic oompa loompa thing, it's actual people doing this and people need to eat.