I had a long conversation over lunch just a couple years ago with a Star Wars actress, the content of said conversation shall remain private. Jus' sayin', "I had lunch with Camie Loneozner!":D
Loved the series too, until they wrote O'Neill out as a General and got the Farscape crew in, that fucked it up completely. All they needed was that Muppet.
not really, to fly a harrier you have to be trained to fly... a harrier.
It is primarily a STOVL, second to being able to hover and land vertically. Generally it has to use a short runway or ramp to takeoff since it'll invariably be laden hence too heavy to lift on corner jets alone. As it's a single engine aircraft, the corner jets are gimballed giving it a far different control behaviour than a helicopter (which has three points of yaw authority (rotor head/rudder/tail rotor), two different points of pitch authority (rotor head/tailplane) and two points of roll authority (rotor head/tailplane), as opposed to a plane's 1-2-2 (rudder-(aileron/tailplane)-(aileron/tailplane)). As a harrier has no differential adjustment for each jet, control direction depends entirely on the orientation of the aircraft and the direction the jets are facing. ONE degree off and the thing can flip or drop out of the sky. This is why so many did. Yes, it's a great idea, but the execution is poor - albeit resulting in the most successful STOVL strike aircraft ever conceived. Hell, it won us the Falklands War. That and several thousand Royal Marines.
FWIW, the F-35 JSF is also a great concept, it's a crying shame the thing does not perform anywhere near as well as promised - it barely does supersonic, it barely climbs, and supercruise? Forget it. Oh, and the RADAR return instead of being sparrow like, is more like an Airbus. I have a prediction: the UK will suddenly find itself having to find an excuse (like overspent defence budget - HA!) to cancel its order, which started at 140, now sitting at 14 for the SAME PRICE.
that would be the ones on zero hours contracts. I'm in the process of building a case which involves some reliance on the RCN decision to prove that zero hours contracts aren't just controversial, they're actually illegal.
-1 Redundant, you used the word "sociopath~" which has not been a valid term in any legitimate branch of mental health study or practice since the collapse of the Bell Defence in 1968. TYCA.
it would be legal if she agreed to the contract and salaried for the equivalent 24/7 at minimum wage AT THE MINIMUM, or if she was paid by the hour, that she was compensated for 24/7 even if she was only spending an hour a day actually seeing clients. The point here is that she's on the clock and should be paid for being on the clock regardless of whether she was babysitting an ankle bracelet or wiping a 104 year old's arse. Personally, I think the tracking issue is secondary, even trivial. Leave the phone at home and use call forwarding to a personal cell without GPS.
"On call" means she's always on the clock and therefore has a billing claim against her employers. At least, that's how it theoretically works in England (RCN V London NHS, held that sitting next to a telephone or travelling between clients at their homes (but not going between home and work) was actually billable hours (with the exception of being between on call and travelling to that call which is all on the clock), according to the National Minimum Wage Act 1998).
reason being that you shouldn't be buying Enterprise grade through a brick retailer. You should be leasing it via a support contract: the premium is with a tech on the other end of the phone who's out in a couple hours to replace a dud drive and have your RAID rebuilt before the day ends, rather than you running to the nearest PC World for a TB Seagate pocket spinny. Like I've just had to. If I'd had a support contract (hence Enterprise grade drives as they generally insist on anyway since they're easier for ICTs to RMA) then I'd've been at my mum's now sealing her windows rather than babysitting my new drive still.
That would bring immediate improvements to GPS accuracy, which was initially intended as a remote terrain guidance system for nuclear tipped cruise missiles and submarine launched ICBMs.
(Yes, I know that then-President Clinton issued a directive to abolish Selective Availability in 2000, but that doesn't go anywhere near explaining why the average handheld still can't get better than twelve feet horizontal accuracy when a cruise missile can use GPS - travelling at 500mph - to pilot itself in through a particular window on a particular building).
hm, wonder if AC's on about the leaked memos between the NSA and GCHQ detailing how GCHQ would do the eavesdropping to get around the wiretapping laws and feed the data back to Homeland?
Dragon is brilliant. I have the Premium version that has all the bespoke dictionaries. Yes, it's a total hog but there again I do use it to transcribe conferences. At which it is VERY good.
I went the OEMCD route for xp Pro on my EeePC (1008HA) because the Home sticker on the bottom returned as invalid!
Next install is going to be OpenSuSE whateverversioniscurrent (13.2 now?) or Knoppix (7? I've already got it on an SD card and fuck me it's fast off there)
From a Slashdot submission last year (OK it was one of mine, but that is NOT the point!):
Four people accused of sharing illegal copies of the movie "Elf-Man" persuaded a federal judge there is not enough evidence to support copyright infringement claims against them.
Elf-Man LLC, producer of the direct-to-DVD release "Elf-Man" sued Eric Cariveau et al. in Federal Court a year ago, accusing them of sharing a peer-to-peer file of the movie.
Elf-Man claims the defendants illegally copied and distributed the movie online.
"Despite the industry's efforts to capitalize on internet technology and reduce costs to end viewers through legitimate and legal means of online viewing such as through Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, there are still those that use this technology to steal motion pictures and undermine the efforts of creators through their illegal copying and distribution of motion pictures," Elf-Man's attorney Maureen VanderMay wrote in the complaint.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik granted Elf-Man's motion to initiate discovery on the IP addresses of defendants, but noted that "the risk of false positives is very real."
"It is not clear that plaintiff could... make factual contentions regarding an Internet subscriber's infringing activities based solely on the fact that he or she pays the Internet bill," Lasnik wrote in the order.
Elf-Man named 18 individual defendants in its first amended complaint. A default judgment was ordered against two of them; claims against the Doe defendants were dismissed. Claims against four other named defendants were also dismissed on the grounds of their implausibility.
this is why they should show videos in schools of kids getting wiped out when jaywalking. If they don't take the example from that and start to take personal responsibility for their own safety then it can only be good for the gene pool
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There is another Dark Angel, it's got Dolph Lundgren in it.
"I come in peace!"
"And you go in pieces, asshole."
I had a long conversation over lunch just a couple years ago with a Star Wars actress, the content of said conversation shall remain private. Jus' sayin', "I had lunch with Camie Loneozner!" :D
uh, where'd you get that time from? BFE is 1h58m.
guilty.
Loved the series too, until they wrote O'Neill out as a General and got the Farscape crew in, that fucked it up completely. All they needed was that Muppet.
not really, to fly a harrier you have to be trained to fly... a harrier.
It is primarily a STOVL, second to being able to hover and land vertically. Generally it has to use a short runway or ramp to takeoff since it'll invariably be laden hence too heavy to lift on corner jets alone. As it's a single engine aircraft, the corner jets are gimballed giving it a far different control behaviour than a helicopter (which has three points of yaw authority (rotor head/rudder/tail rotor), two different points of pitch authority (rotor head/tailplane) and two points of roll authority (rotor head/tailplane), as opposed to a plane's 1-2-2 (rudder-(aileron/tailplane)-(aileron/tailplane)). As a harrier has no differential adjustment for each jet, control direction depends entirely on the orientation of the aircraft and the direction the jets are facing. ONE degree off and the thing can flip or drop out of the sky. This is why so many did. Yes, it's a great idea, but the execution is poor - albeit resulting in the most successful STOVL strike aircraft ever conceived. Hell, it won us the Falklands War. That and several thousand Royal Marines.
FWIW, the F-35 JSF is also a great concept, it's a crying shame the thing does not perform anywhere near as well as promised - it barely does supersonic, it barely climbs, and supercruise? Forget it. Oh, and the RADAR return instead of being sparrow like, is more like an Airbus. I have a prediction: the UK will suddenly find itself having to find an excuse (like overspent defence budget - HA!) to cancel its order, which started at 140, now sitting at 14 for the SAME PRICE.
Star Wars Holiday Special.
That is all.
probably because you're looking at the wrong case.
that would be the ones on zero hours contracts. I'm in the process of building a case which involves some reliance on the RCN decision to prove that zero hours contracts aren't just controversial, they're actually illegal.
they're not Internet of Things, they're Internet of Everything. Keep up! :D
-1 Redundant, you used the word "sociopath~" which has not been a valid term in any legitimate branch of mental health study or practice since the collapse of the Bell Defence in 1968. TYCA.
it would be legal if she agreed to the contract and salaried for the equivalent 24/7 at minimum wage AT THE MINIMUM, or if she was paid by the hour, that she was compensated for 24/7 even if she was only spending an hour a day actually seeing clients. The point here is that she's on the clock and should be paid for being on the clock regardless of whether she was babysitting an ankle bracelet or wiping a 104 year old's arse. Personally, I think the tracking issue is secondary, even trivial. Leave the phone at home and use call forwarding to a personal cell without GPS.
"On call" means she's always on the clock and therefore has a billing claim against her employers. At least, that's how it theoretically works in England (RCN V London NHS, held that sitting next to a telephone or travelling between clients at their homes (but not going between home and work) was actually billable hours (with the exception of being between on call and travelling to that call which is all on the clock), according to the National Minimum Wage Act 1998).
reason being that you shouldn't be buying Enterprise grade through a brick retailer. You should be leasing it via a support contract: the premium is with a tech on the other end of the phone who's out in a couple hours to replace a dud drive and have your RAID rebuilt before the day ends, rather than you running to the nearest PC World for a TB Seagate pocket spinny. Like I've just had to. If I'd had a support contract (hence Enterprise grade drives as they generally insist on anyway since they're easier for ICTs to RMA) then I'd've been at my mum's now sealing her windows rather than babysitting my new drive still.
That would bring immediate improvements to GPS accuracy, which was initially intended as a remote terrain guidance system for nuclear tipped cruise missiles and submarine launched ICBMs.
(Yes, I know that then-President Clinton issued a directive to abolish Selective Availability in 2000, but that doesn't go anywhere near explaining why the average handheld still can't get better than twelve feet horizontal accuracy when a cruise missile can use GPS - travelling at 500mph - to pilot itself in through a particular window on a particular building).
Mother Earth putting ancient brown noise emitters to use...
...wake me up when they cram 18 cores into a laptop.
hm, wonder if AC's on about the leaked memos between the NSA and GCHQ detailing how GCHQ would do the eavesdropping to get around the wiretapping laws and feed the data back to Homeland?
Dragon is brilliant. I have the Premium version that has all the bespoke dictionaries. Yes, it's a total hog but there again I do use it to transcribe conferences. At which it is VERY good.
Habeas corpus is suspended in time of war.
There is a war on drugs.
There is a war on terror/ism.
There is a war on ISI/L/S.
Three declared wars, plus oodles of undeclared police actions and incursions into sovereign terroritories, you think habeas corpus has ANY teeth??
Dialling random numbers from a public phone and saying "Is it done?", or "Man, you gotta help me, I did it but there's blood and brains everywhere!"
For the win.
I went the OEMCD route for xp Pro on my EeePC (1008HA) because the Home sticker on the bottom returned as invalid!
Next install is going to be OpenSuSE whateverversioniscurrent (13.2 now?) or Knoppix (7? I've already got it on an SD card and fuck me it's fast off there)
From a Slashdot submission last year (OK it was one of mine, but that is NOT the point!):
Four people accused of sharing illegal copies of the movie "Elf-Man" persuaded a federal judge there is not enough evidence to support copyright infringement claims against them. ... make factual contentions regarding an Internet subscriber's infringing activities based solely on the fact that he or she pays the Internet bill," Lasnik wrote in the order.
Elf-Man LLC, producer of the direct-to-DVD release "Elf-Man" sued Eric Cariveau et al. in Federal Court a year ago, accusing them of sharing a peer-to-peer file of the movie.
Elf-Man claims the defendants illegally copied and distributed the movie online.
"Despite the industry's efforts to capitalize on internet technology and reduce costs to end viewers through legitimate and legal means of online viewing such as through Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, there are still those that use this technology to steal motion pictures and undermine the efforts of creators through their illegal copying and distribution of motion pictures," Elf-Man's attorney Maureen VanderMay wrote in the complaint.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik granted Elf-Man's motion to initiate discovery on the IP addresses of defendants, but noted that "the risk of false positives is very real."
"It is not clear that plaintiff could
Elf-Man named 18 individual defendants in its first amended complaint. A default judgment was ordered against two of them; claims against the Doe defendants were dismissed. Claims against four other named defendants were also dismissed on the grounds of their implausibility.
Source: http://slashdot.org/firehose.p... (news for nerds, my arse!)
ask then answer: do you want to wake up with your bed on fire?
this is why they should show videos in schools of kids getting wiped out when jaywalking. If they don't take the example from that and start to take personal responsibility for their own safety then it can only be good for the gene pool
I'd've thought the answer would be obvious: for the safety of the public at large.