Anecdote: I have a stack of 4 Seagate ST325082A 250GB PATA drives I bought in 2006 with the specific intention of building a RAID. That RAID is still running, almost uninterrupted since November of that year (breaking for fan replacements and the odd power cut), with no failures.
but they won't. Sony won't even offer KJU any royalty for using his likeness in an entertainment (term used loosely) without his express consent. Why should they? No, seriously, why? Enquiring minds wish to know.
MOTIVE: disgruntled ex employees. Check. MEANS: prearmed with information on the machinations of SPE, not ordinarily known to the public. Check. OPPORTUNITY: High profile release with the potential to piss off a State leader and shift the blame onto him. Check.
Yes, being a pissed off ex employee with inside information and the chance to make a high profile disruption to those who would risk your mortgage and pension with little to no personal risk is a big fucking bullseye.
check your sources: US airlines (and most if not all European ones) studiously AVOID Syria AND Ukraine AND Iraq PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE DESIGNATED WAR ZONES. Malaysia, AirAsia and other Far Eastern airlines which generally seem to have saving as much fuel as possible as the pimary profit motive, IGNORE war zones and yes, they do fly over them regularly.
Stephen is currently Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) and Founder of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) at the University of Cambridge. He has been Principal Investigator of the COSMOS National Cosmology Supercomputer since 1997. Stephen is also the Emeritus Lucasian Professor for Cambridge.
In other words, he is probably smarter than every single numbered account on this website combined.
uh... bollocks. The missile that brought down MH17 was not a shoulder fired job, it was a serviced phased-array RADAR guided system with a hundred seventy pound warhead housed in a twenty foot tube. The track left the ground at a range of more than twenty miles, after the system had been actively tracking the target from over 100 miles range (over the horizon). Also, war zones are generally out of bounds for civilian traffic, whether ground based or air, or even water based. You take your own life into your hands if you choose to ignore the warnings, no nation will protect you if you happen to survive being shot out of the sky in a large aircraft, over a war zone.
it's a fucking war zone, daily flash should have (would have) alerted EVERY civilian airline to that fact, general sensibility is to AVOID civilian overflights of war zones. Missiles are NOT picky. They go where they're told, and generally SAM systems are not equipped with transponder readers.
MH17 would NOT have happened had the person responsible for pointing the nose of the aircraft not done so in such a way in an attempt to shave five minutes off the flight and/or save a gallon or so of kerosene.
Is that a physical copy, like a DVD? Or is it an imaginary copy, like a digital download, stream, air performance (where wetware memory is also by strict definition, a copy)?
The **AA have their own definition: they claim it is the potential wetware duplication, which is how many people will hear it and not pay for it? Because Sony didn't pay a licence to the artist, then it must follow by that logic that every single person who heard the music also didn't pay for it. Because Sony are the distributors, it's down to them to put right. On the balance of probabilities (this is a civil claim), the number of tickets sold must equal the number of unique individuals who "recorded" the music to their wet memories (heard it), hence that count should be the one used to enumerate the violations - notwithstanding and in fact ignoring the possibility which is not convenient that not everyone who bought a ticket will have actually gone on to watch the movie and some individuals might have seen it twice.
My laptop has full-travel keys, yet because it's flat, I prefer the step-elevated Dell BT Wireless (in the absence of my Microsoft Comfort AT). Pretty sure it's a helical sprung keytop on it but you know what? I love it for the fact that the keys are demi-conical and pretty much only a direct strike on the key will engage it. If it's on my desk, the back feet are dropped, raising the top row even further. Yes, I learned to type on a Selectric II. I fucking loved that thing. Was dismayed to find by the time I got to college that portable keyboards had gotten flatter and flatter while key sensitivity had got to the point where they engaged if you breathed on them. Give me elevated rows and full height, full travel Steinway & Sons and keep your Bontempi shite.
ok, if you want to overcomplicate things, let's compare loiter/bomb load. A10 wins with 3x the bomb load. Here's some more stats for you to chew on:
A-10 Thunderbolt II (yes, the II, not the I) versus F-16 Fighting Falcon (source: kamov.net)
CATEGORY F-16 Fighting Falcon/A-10 Thunderbolt II
Unit cost in USD millions 45-55/20-25
Fuel economy in km/l 0,87/0,31 Fuel economy in NM/g 2,04/0,72
Fuel tank capacity in litres 3980/4850 Fuel tank capacity in gallon 1051/1280
Range on internal fuel in km 3460/1500 Range on internal fuel in miles 2145,2/930 Range on internal fuel in NM 1868,4/810
Powerplant/Engines 1 × F110-GE-100/2 × General Electric TF34-GE-100A
Dry thrust in kN 1 x 76/2 x 40 Dry thrust in lbf 1 x 17000/2 x 9000
Afterburner in kN 1 x 127/NO Afterburner in lbf 1 x 28500/NO
Max. Speed in Mach 2,00/0,70 Max. Speed in km/h 2450/858 Max. Speed in mph 1522/533
Minimal thrust/weight ratio 0,69/0,21 Normal thrust/weight ratio 1,09/0,36 Maximal thrust/weight ratio 1,60/0,58
Overall length in meters 15,05/16,26 Overall length in ft 49,36/53,33 Wingspan in meters 9,95/17,53 Wingspan in ft 32,64/57,50 Height in meters 4,88/4,47 Height in ft 16,01/14,66
Wing area in sq meters 27,90/47,00 Wing area in sq ft 300,20/505,72
Empty weight in kg 8500/11300 Empty weight in lb 18700/24860
Maximal take-off weight in kg 19200/23000 Maximal take-off weight in lb 42240/50600
Minimal wing-loading in kg/m2 300/297 Normal wing-loading in kg/m2 430/482 Maximal wing-loading in kg/m2 688/599
Rate of climb in m/sec 254/30 Rate of climb in ft/min 50013/5907
First flight 1974/1972 - If you crunch some numbers, you'll see that even though the F16 has just over twice the range on internal fuel, it does fly nearly three times faster, hence will not fly for as long as the A10. Ergo, the A10 wins on loiter just on internal fuel, let's not go there with the additional drop tank capacity.
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I beg to differ.
Anecdote: I have a stack of 4 Seagate ST325082A 250GB PATA drives I bought in 2006 with the specific intention of building a RAID. That RAID is still running, almost uninterrupted since November of that year (breaking for fan replacements and the odd power cut), with no failures.
How do you recover last Tuesdays file if you already synced the deletion??
By looking at last Tuesday's delta.
Rolling snapshots, ftw!
do hybrid drives and custom NAS boxes count?
you have access to the same tools as I do, so if you would please to answer your own question, I have better things to do than satisfy your pedantry.
"This Is (An Entertainment)" is a play by Tenessee Williams, so it's about as fucking English as it gets, you fucking tool.
but they won't. Sony won't even offer KJU any royalty for using his likeness in an entertainment (term used loosely) without his express consent. Why should they? No, seriously, why? Enquiring minds wish to know.
motive, means, opportunity:
MOTIVE: disgruntled ex employees. Check.
MEANS: prearmed with information on the machinations of SPE, not ordinarily known to the public. Check.
OPPORTUNITY: High profile release with the potential to piss off a State leader and shift the blame onto him. Check.
Yes, being a pissed off ex employee with inside information and the chance to make a high profile disruption to those who would risk your mortgage and pension with little to no personal risk is a big fucking bullseye.
but clearly excludes direct State involvement.
this was my first thought as well, nothing so well executed could be done without inside information.
Now for those who didn't realise before, this is why safecrackers find out what their target safe is and buy a duplicate to practice on first.
check your sources: US airlines (and most if not all European ones) studiously AVOID Syria AND Ukraine AND Iraq PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE DESIGNATED WAR ZONES. Malaysia, AirAsia and other Far Eastern airlines which generally seem to have saving as much fuel as possible as the pimary profit motive, IGNORE war zones and yes, they do fly over them regularly.
Stephen is currently Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) and Founder of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) at the University of Cambridge. He has been Principal Investigator of the COSMOS National Cosmology Supercomputer since 1997. Stephen is also the Emeritus Lucasian Professor for Cambridge.
In other words, he is probably smarter than every single numbered account on this website combined.
uh... bollocks. The missile that brought down MH17 was not a shoulder fired job, it was a serviced phased-array RADAR guided system with a hundred seventy pound warhead housed in a twenty foot tube. The track left the ground at a range of more than twenty miles, after the system had been actively tracking the target from over 100 miles range (over the horizon). Also, war zones are generally out of bounds for civilian traffic, whether ground based or air, or even water based. You take your own life into your hands if you choose to ignore the warnings, no nation will protect you if you happen to survive being shot out of the sky in a large aircraft, over a war zone.
it's a fucking war zone, daily flash should have (would have) alerted EVERY civilian airline to that fact, general sensibility is to AVOID civilian overflights of war zones. Missiles are NOT picky. They go where they're told, and generally SAM systems are not equipped with transponder readers.
MH17 would NOT have happened had the person responsible for pointing the nose of the aircraft not done so in such a way in an attempt to shave five minutes off the flight and/or save a gallon or so of kerosene.
define "copy"?
Is that a physical copy, like a DVD?
Or is it an imaginary copy, like a digital download, stream, air performance (where wetware memory is also by strict definition, a copy)?
The **AA have their own definition: they claim it is the potential wetware duplication, which is how many people will hear it and not pay for it? Because Sony didn't pay a licence to the artist, then it must follow by that logic that every single person who heard the music also didn't pay for it. Because Sony are the distributors, it's down to them to put right. On the balance of probabilities (this is a civil claim), the number of tickets sold must equal the number of unique individuals who "recorded" the music to their wet memories (heard it), hence that count should be the one used to enumerate the violations - notwithstanding and in fact ignoring the possibility which is not convenient that not everyone who bought a ticket will have actually gone on to watch the movie and some individuals might have seen it twice.
My laptop has full-travel keys, yet because it's flat, I prefer the step-elevated Dell BT Wireless (in the absence of my Microsoft Comfort AT). Pretty sure it's a helical sprung keytop on it but you know what? I love it for the fact that the keys are demi-conical and pretty much only a direct strike on the key will engage it. If it's on my desk, the back feet are dropped, raising the top row even further. Yes, I learned to type on a Selectric II. I fucking loved that thing. Was dismayed to find by the time I got to college that portable keyboards had gotten flatter and flatter while key sensitivity had got to the point where they engaged if you breathed on them. Give me elevated rows and full height, full travel Steinway & Sons and keep your Bontempi shite.
Microsoft Comfort Sculpt 5000 W8 has good reviews
give me a bell, I've been after one of these for years since mine was STOLEN.
$150,000 per claimed violation. That should be counted as ticket sales. How many tickets were sold for the opening day alone?
Sony would regret lobbying for that pesky DMCA... >:]
it got Yoda'd.
ok, if you want to overcomplicate things, let's compare loiter/bomb load. A10 wins with 3x the bomb load. Here's some more stats for you to chew on:
A-10 Thunderbolt II (yes, the II, not the I) versus F-16 Fighting Falcon (source: kamov.net)
CATEGORY F-16 Fighting Falcon/A-10 Thunderbolt II
Unit cost in USD millions 45-55/20-25
Fuel economy in km/l 0,87/0,31
Fuel economy in NM/g 2,04/0,72
Fuel tank capacity in litres 3980/4850
Fuel tank capacity in gallon 1051/1280
Range on internal fuel in km 3460/1500
Range on internal fuel in miles 2145,2/930
Range on internal fuel in NM 1868,4/810
Powerplant/Engines 1 × F110-GE-100/2 × General Electric TF34-GE-100A
Dry thrust in kN 1 x 76/2 x 40
Dry thrust in lbf 1 x 17000/2 x 9000
Afterburner in kN 1 x 127/NO
Afterburner in lbf 1 x 28500/NO
Max. Speed in Mach 2,00/0,70
Max. Speed in km/h 2450/858
Max. Speed in mph 1522/533
Minimal thrust/weight ratio 0,69/0,21
Normal thrust/weight ratio 1,09/0,36
Maximal thrust/weight ratio 1,60/0,58
Overall length in meters 15,05/16,26
Overall length in ft 49,36/53,33
Wingspan in meters 9,95/17,53
Wingspan in ft 32,64/57,50
Height in meters 4,88/4,47
Height in ft 16,01/14,66
Wing area in sq meters 27,90/47,00
Wing area in sq ft 300,20/505,72
Empty weight in kg 8500/11300
Empty weight in lb 18700/24860
Maximal take-off weight in kg 19200/23000
Maximal take-off weight in lb 42240/50600
Minimal wing-loading in kg/m2 300/297
Normal wing-loading in kg/m2 430/482
Maximal wing-loading in kg/m2 688/599
Rate of climb in m/sec 254/30
Rate of climb in ft/min 50013/5907
First flight 1974/1972
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If you crunch some numbers, you'll see that even though the F16 has just over twice the range on internal fuel, it does fly nearly three times faster, hence will not fly for as long as the A10. Ergo, the A10 wins on loiter just on internal fuel, let's not go there with the additional drop tank capacity.
of course they do, data is their business. They don't give a shit about your family, they want to sell your profile to advertisers. That is it.
that'd be great for them, to have planes with 400 mile ferry range (until the second generation batteries are unleashed)
saw what you did there. :) lulz.
I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.
what a fascinating insight you have.