And it also spends time within the orbit of Neptune. Early speculation was that t may have originally been one of Neptune's moons, but some wandering object sent it into a highly eccentric orbit out of the solar ecliptic.
The new definition of a planet is very arbitrary:
A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit
According to that definition, other stars cannot have planets, since they don't orbit around the Sun. What a blooper. Then again, considering how few astronomers actually voted for this resolution, who cares?
Also, when talking about "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, just how clear is "clear"?
The thing that made the Sinclairs popular was that you could actually program them yourself. Not the games.
Not having a keyboard (onscreen keyboards suck), and being required to load an emulator onto your PC to program make this an item for people who want to have a bit of nostalgia without actually reliving the past.
I don't know. Using the nic "Lesrahpem" (say it a few times - sounds like "Let's Rape 'Em"), if it's for rape, he's going to be toxic on today's work environment.
In its decision in Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer) in 2002, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that prisoners serving terms of more than two years could not be disqualified from voting, stating that legislation infringing on prisoners' right to vote was not a reasonable limit of that right
So ballot boxes in all prisons on election day is now seen as normal. Anything that makes inmates feel like they have a positive connection to greater society is a good thing.
First thing to do is see if it's even relevant to the hiring process. Here, our human rights laws do not allow employers to discriminate based on the fact that someone has a criminal record.
Second, as others have pointed out, there's a difference between a misdemeanor and a felony; there's also the difference between convictions where a minor was tried as a minor as opposed to a minor tried as an adult. It's not clear when in the poster's life these events occurred. Like so many of these "ask slashdot" submissions, we need more info (in other words, context:-)
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Given the high levels of misogamy in IT, you could always say you were originally charged with killing your ex, but pled it down*
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*and unfortunately, it would probably work
All those saying to start freelancing fail to take into account that, with the lack of any increase in domestic hiring in IT over the last decade (the entire net increase has been in H1Bs), you're competing with an increasingly large pool of others who cannot get a job and which, if you do get one, is in danger of being outsourced much easier than, say, a plumber or someone cutting lawns or digging ditches with a back-hoe.
In other words, you might actually be lucky, in the sense that if you have to drop IT from consideration now, you'll be better off in the long run than if you end up having to drop it 10 years from now, because there's not just misogamy, there's ageism, and that directly impacts both sexes (and it doesn't get easier as you get older. In IT, 35 is the new 60).
I have the world's biggest library at my fingertips. 20 years ago, I would have believed that such a tool would transform my life.
It always astonishes me how little the internet has changed our lives.Our brains are not designed to make use of so much information.
Would you have been able to have such a discussion with people all over the world, (including those who didn't know how to troll usenet) 20 years ago? The nature of discussion has changed. 20 years ago, discussions were about the new tech itself - now, it's about how it affects our lives, sometimes in very negative ways.
Heck, at the turn of the century stories about the lastest distro release actually got read. Now? Yawn:-(
vi vs emacs can't get a good flame war running. Even windows vs linux, and apple-bashing, is boring and a bit gauche. We've lived through it and moved on (with the exception of systemd, which is about the only real OS debate that polarizes people).
So did the remake of Battlestar Galactica, if you watched until the final eposode. That didn't stop it from examining the difference between being a person and a human, etc.
"like you now have to have an ID for cops to verify if needed"
A pretty alien concept to me, since I don't carry ID when I'm walking to dogs or going to visit a neighbor...
How many kids go to school carrying legal ID? Another alien concept...
1st black president - would have been unthinkable 50 years ago. Now every kid can become president.
Same-sex marriage - ditto.
TV comedy and drama shows starring blacks, TV talk shows hosted by lesbians or gays, etc.
Abortion on demand.
Tampon commercials on prime-time TV.
Beating your spouse or kid gets you arrested.
The "house with the white picket fence, 2.5 kids and a dog" is getting more and more unobtainable each passing decade, and isn't seen as ideal to a large segment of the population anyway, both male and female, who actually prefer the single life.
A lot has changed.
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How about a culture that practices sex the same way the black widow spider does - by eating their mate? (ritual cannibalism)
The real problem is that he doesn't recognize the various purposes of story-telling.
1. Teaching: Making people consider some aspect of themselves, their ideas, prejudices and presumptions. You can't do that effectively with all the clutter of a completely alien setting.
2. Entertainment: People are not going to be entertained if they have to spend all their attention trying to figure out what the context is - if it's so alien that they need a series of intro courses in xenology before they can grok the story, they're not going to be entertained any more than trying to entertain them with a game that has a rule-book thicker than an encyclopedia (Sheldon Cooper excepted).
3. Reflection of society as it is and (optionally) as what the writer thinks it could become: Think of it as running a thought experiment, while at the same time preserving on record the social values of the day. Look at the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc.
4. People. It's about PEOPLE, people! Ultimately, if all the characters are so alien (no humans or human-like characters) that we cannot see even a bit of ourselves in any of them, it's more an exercise in mental masturbation than in story-telling.
5. Motivation: Sci-fi gradually got enough people used to the idea of going to the moon that, when Kennedy gave his speech, he wasn't laughed out of office. Imagine if he had given that same speech 50 years earlier... (see - fictional story lines with alternate universes aren't that hard to come by, as long as they have to have something the reader can relate to:-)
In other words, whether it's a sci-fi, a crime thriller, an adventure tale, for our purposes we're doing it right.
Of course I'm going by the legal definition. It's the framework we as a civilization have built, and under which we live. It's the one that has real-life consequences. It evolves as society evolves - transsexuals are now legally defined as being their target gender, not their birth gender, and treating us otherwise has legal consequences. Same with same-sex marriage, which has been legal here for more than a decade.
It's also the reason why women and children are no longer considered "chattel", women can vote, use contraceptives, and get a divorce or abortion on demand, we've banned slavery, etc.
The final fact is that, when it comes to what gender I am to be treated as, the law is 100% on my side, and trying to hide behind a dictionary definition of what is a male and what is a female comes off as being more than a bit unreasonable. It's also unrealistic given the hundreds of thousands of us out there.
I know, pretty ironic, hmm? And that's just it. I don't know about everyone else, but I think we're all sick and tired of the strident antagonism of the SJWs and, to a lesser extent, their White Knights. They need to practice their "jaw jaw is better than war war" fu. Plus there's a real need for some of us to be visible, to "show the flag" as it were, because according to some estimates, 2% of all programmers are trans. Besides, it's going to come out anyway eventually, so might as well embrace the inevitable... (see the first 3 comments).
As a writer/artist I need feedback on my work. Positive feedback is gratuitous and useless for the most part. Give me your criticism!
Absolutely.
Thanks Barbie! (I expect you will find that annoying.)
The thing is, you're overlooking the deterrent value of this guy being caught in a sting. Anyone who is being approached to sell out (because that's what he is if convicted - a sell-out AND a traitor) will think twice, then three times, then maybe report it and help catch a real buyer?
The battery is broken apart in a hammer mill; a machine that hammers the battery into pieces. The broken battery pieces are then placed into a vat, where the lead and heavy materials fall to the bottom and the plastic floats. At this point, the polypropylene pieces are scooped away and the liquids are drawn off, leaving the plastic
Polypropylene pieces are washed, blown dry, and sent to a plastic recycler where the pieces are melted together into an almost liquid state. The molten plastic is put through an extruder that produces small plastic pellets of a uniform size. The pellets are sold to a manufacturer of battery cases and the process begins again.
Lead grids, lead oxide, and other lead parts are cleaned and heated within smelting furnaces. The molten melted lead is then poured into ingot molds. After a few minutes, the impurities float to the top of the still molten lead in the ingot molds. These impurities are scraped away and the ingots are left to cool. When the ingots are cool, they’re removed from the molds and sent to battery manufacturers, where they’re re-melted and used in the production of new batteries.
Old battery acid can be handled in two ways: 1) The acid is neutralized with an industrial compound similar to household baking soda. Neutralization turns the acid into water. The water is then treated, cleaned, tested in a waste water treatment plant to be sure it meets clean water standards. 2) The acid is processed and converted to sodium sulfate, an odorless white powder that’s used in laundry detergent, glass, and textile manufacturing.
Sure, it might have originated in the Kuiper belt, but it isn't there any more. Besides, it's the first object to be named after a cartoon character, which kind of made it fun (and easy to remember) when we were kids.
"He also described a detailed plan to circumvent Navy computer security by installing a "bug" on his restricted computer that would allow him to copy documents without drawing attention.
According to the affidavit, Awwad provided the undercover agent four computer-aided design drawings of the Ford and told him where to strike the vessel with a missile to sink it.
The two men later arranged for Awwad to make a drop on Oct. 23 in Hampton. The affidavit said Awwad removed $3,000 in cash from a camouflaged hole and put in its place a 1-terabyte external hard drive and two passport photos he thought the Egyptians would use to make a fraudulent passport. Agents found six more drawings of the Ford on the hard drive.
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The new definition of a planet is very arbitrary:
A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit
According to that definition, other stars cannot have planets, since they don't orbit around the Sun. What a blooper. Then again, considering how few astronomers actually voted for this resolution, who cares?
Also, when talking about "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, just how clear is "clear"?
No need (and you couldn't even if you wanted to). You are supposed to develop on a PC and transfer via a memory card.
In all fairness, marijuana is _the_ gateway drug...a class 4 felony really isn't strict enough!
Actually, tobacco is the gateway drug - but so many politicians are addicts, both to tobacco, and to lobby tax dollars, that it won't be banned.
Not having a keyboard (onscreen keyboards suck), and being required to load an emulator onto your PC to program make this an item for people who want to have a bit of nostalgia without actually reliving the past.
Yes. Next question?
Who in their right mind would pay 4 million for *his* Nobel prize? I know pure gold doesn't really tarnish... but that thing is tarnished.
It would be funny if it were given to the people doing the ig nobels, to be awarded each year in the category "most bone-head racist research".
"Granting one self absolution smacks of self fullfillment or seeking godhood.. which is not exactly a selfless act."
Shhh ... don't tell that to Bill Gates ... it's okay when you have more money than God.
I don't know. Using the nic "Lesrahpem" (say it a few times - sounds like "Let's Rape 'Em"), if it's for rape, he's going to be toxic on today's work environment.
In its decision in Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer) in 2002, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that prisoners serving terms of more than two years could not be disqualified from voting, stating that legislation infringing on prisoners' right to vote was not a reasonable limit of that right
So ballot boxes in all prisons on election day is now seen as normal. Anything that makes inmates feel like they have a positive connection to greater society is a good thing.
"The great thing about the tech industry as that it is pretty easy to start your own company."
And the bad thing about the tech industry is that pretty much anybody is your competition, due to low barriers of entry.
Unless he's got a decent amount of working capital so that he can afford to take the time to get established, good luck with that ...
First thing to do is see if it's even relevant to the hiring process. Here, our human rights laws do not allow employers to discriminate based on the fact that someone has a criminal record.
Second, as others have pointed out, there's a difference between a misdemeanor and a felony; there's also the difference between convictions where a minor was tried as a minor as opposed to a minor tried as an adult. It's not clear when in the poster's life these events occurred. Like so many of these "ask slashdot" submissions, we need more info (in other words, context :-)
[social_commentary]
Given the high levels of misogamy in IT, you could always say you were originally charged with killing your ex, but pled it down*
[/social_commentary]
*and unfortunately, it would probably work
All those saying to start freelancing fail to take into account that, with the lack of any increase in domestic hiring in IT over the last decade (the entire net increase has been in H1Bs), you're competing with an increasingly large pool of others who cannot get a job and which, if you do get one, is in danger of being outsourced much easier than, say, a plumber or someone cutting lawns or digging ditches with a back-hoe.
In other words, you might actually be lucky, in the sense that if you have to drop IT from consideration now, you'll be better off in the long run than if you end up having to drop it 10 years from now, because there's not just misogamy, there's ageism, and that directly impacts both sexes (and it doesn't get easier as you get older. In IT, 35 is the new 60).
Mentally, we cannot change all that much.
I have the world's biggest library at my fingertips. 20 years ago, I would have believed that such a tool would transform my life.
It always astonishes me how little the internet has changed our lives.Our brains are not designed to make use of so much information.
Would you have been able to have such a discussion with people all over the world, (including those who didn't know how to troll usenet) 20 years ago? The nature of discussion has changed. 20 years ago, discussions were about the new tech itself - now, it's about how it affects our lives, sometimes in very negative ways.
Heck, at the turn of the century stories about the lastest distro release actually got read. Now? Yawn :-(
vi vs emacs can't get a good flame war running. Even windows vs linux, and apple-bashing, is boring and a bit gauche. We've lived through it and moved on (with the exception of systemd, which is about the only real OS debate that polarizes people).
"Star Wars occurs in the past not the future."
So did the remake of Battlestar Galactica, if you watched until the final eposode. That didn't stop it from examining the difference between being a person and a human, etc.
But a horse is a horse is a horse. They're familiar, fun to ride, and take less training to learn how than driving a motorcycle does.
If we end up with a huge population and tech collapse, people in the future might still find riding horses useful.
Her The Left Hand of Darkness was a challenging read, for sure.
"like you now have to have an ID for cops to verify if needed"
A pretty alien concept to me, since I don't carry ID when I'm walking to dogs or going to visit a neighbor ...
...
How many kids go to school carrying legal ID? Another alien concept
1st black president - would have been unthinkable 50 years ago. Now every kid can become president.
Same-sex marriage - ditto.
TV comedy and drama shows starring blacks, TV talk shows hosted by lesbians or gays, etc.
Abortion on demand.
Tampon commercials on prime-time TV.
Beating your spouse or kid gets you arrested.
The "house with the white picket fence, 2.5 kids and a dog" is getting more and more unobtainable each passing decade, and isn't seen as ideal to a large segment of the population anyway, both male and female, who actually prefer the single life.
A lot has changed.
How about a culture that practices sex the same way the black widow spider does - by eating their mate? (ritual cannibalism)
How about a future human culture that has no men (Houston, Houston, Do You Read?)
What about a culture where people are allowed to "abort" children up to the age of 5 (short story I read years ago).
Well, that's a start ...
The real problem is that he doesn't recognize the various purposes of story-telling.
1. Teaching: Making people consider some aspect of themselves, their ideas, prejudices and presumptions. You can't do that effectively with all the clutter of a completely alien setting.
2. Entertainment: People are not going to be entertained if they have to spend all their attention trying to figure out what the context is - if it's so alien that they need a series of intro courses in xenology before they can grok the story, they're not going to be entertained any more than trying to entertain them with a game that has a rule-book thicker than an encyclopedia (Sheldon Cooper excepted).
3. Reflection of society as it is and (optionally) as what the writer thinks it could become: Think of it as running a thought experiment, while at the same time preserving on record the social values of the day. Look at the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc.
4. People. It's about PEOPLE, people! Ultimately, if all the characters are so alien (no humans or human-like characters) that we cannot see even a bit of ourselves in any of them, it's more an exercise in mental masturbation than in story-telling.
5. Motivation: Sci-fi gradually got enough people used to the idea of going to the moon that, when Kennedy gave his speech, he wasn't laughed out of office. Imagine if he had given that same speech 50 years earlier ... (see - fictional story lines with alternate universes aren't that hard to come by, as long as they have to have something the reader can relate to :-)
In other words, whether it's a sci-fi, a crime thriller, an adventure tale, for our purposes we're doing it right.
Of course I'm going by the legal definition. It's the framework we as a civilization have built, and under which we live. It's the one that has real-life consequences. It evolves as society evolves - transsexuals are now legally defined as being their target gender, not their birth gender, and treating us otherwise has legal consequences. Same with same-sex marriage, which has been legal here for more than a decade.
It's also the reason why women and children are no longer considered "chattel", women can vote, use contraceptives, and get a divorce or abortion on demand, we've banned slavery, etc.
The final fact is that, when it comes to what gender I am to be treated as, the law is 100% on my side, and trying to hide behind a dictionary definition of what is a male and what is a female comes off as being more than a bit unreasonable. It's also unrealistic given the hundreds of thousands of us out there.
Of all people to promote a 'don't like' button ...
I know, pretty ironic, hmm? And that's just it. I don't know about everyone else, but I think we're all sick and tired of the strident antagonism of the SJWs and, to a lesser extent, their White Knights. They need to practice their "jaw jaw is better than war war" fu. Plus there's a real need for some of us to be visible, to "show the flag" as it were, because according to some estimates, 2% of all programmers are trans. Besides, it's going to come out anyway eventually, so might as well embrace the inevitable ... (see the first 3 comments).
As a writer/artist I need feedback on my work. Positive feedback is gratuitous and useless for the most part. Give me your criticism!
Absolutely.
Thanks Barbie! (I expect you will find that annoying.)
Not at all, and thank you!
The thing is, you're overlooking the deterrent value of this guy being caught in a sting. Anyone who is being approached to sell out (because that's what he is if convicted - a sell-out AND a traitor) will think twice, then three times, then maybe report it and help catch a real buyer?
"I wonder why they don't use car batteries instead?"
... because pretty much everything from a dead car battery can be recycled to make new car batteries and other stuff ...
The battery is broken apart in a hammer mill; a machine that hammers the battery into pieces. The broken battery pieces are then placed into a vat, where the lead and heavy materials fall to the bottom and the plastic floats. At this point, the polypropylene pieces are scooped away and the liquids are drawn off, leaving the plastic
Polypropylene pieces are washed, blown dry, and sent to a plastic recycler where the pieces are melted together into an almost liquid state. The molten plastic is put through an extruder that produces small plastic pellets of a uniform size. The pellets are sold to a manufacturer of battery cases and the process begins again.
Lead grids, lead oxide, and other lead parts are cleaned and heated within smelting furnaces. The molten melted lead is then poured into ingot molds. After a few minutes, the impurities float to the top of the still molten lead in the ingot molds. These impurities are scraped away and the ingots are left to cool. When the ingots are cool, they’re removed from the molds and sent to battery manufacturers, where they’re re-melted and used in the production of new batteries.
Old battery acid can be handled in two ways: 1) The acid is neutralized with an industrial compound similar to household baking soda. Neutralization turns the acid into water. The water is then treated, cleaned, tested in a waste water treatment plant to be sure it meets clean water standards. 2) The acid is processed and converted to sodium sulfate, an odorless white powder that’s used in laundry detergent, glass, and textile manufacturing.
Sure, it might have originated in the Kuiper belt, but it isn't there any more. Besides, it's the first object to be named after a cartoon character, which kind of made it fun (and easy to remember) when we were kids.
"He also described a detailed plan to circumvent Navy computer security by installing a "bug" on his restricted computer that would allow him to copy documents without drawing attention.
According to the affidavit, Awwad provided the undercover agent four computer-aided design drawings of the Ford and told him where to strike the vessel with a missile to sink it.
The two men later arranged for Awwad to make a drop on Oct. 23 in Hampton. The affidavit said Awwad removed $3,000 in cash from a camouflaged hole and put in its place a 1-terabyte external hard drive and two passport photos he thought the Egyptians would use to make a fraudulent passport. Agents found six more drawings of the Ford on the hard drive.
10 drawings and a plan to get a lot more data.