Actually, there have been some interesting shapes other than phallic proposed.
1950's Northrup Flying Wing (passenger aircraft)
1995 Boeing BWB (1995 Popular Science article showing 800 passenger airliner)
2000's Boeing Blended Wing Body (BWB) X-48B
Concept (predicted by 2040) Airbus A350H
When designing an aircraft, you have to consider how much air it has to shove out of the way. To accomplish that, they slowly taper the cross section from nothing (in front of the plane) to the cabin size, and then keep that cross section until they taper it back down to nothing.
The cross section doesn't have to be round, although it helps design a strong frame. It could be a wide oval, or something completely different. Hard corners tend to be a bad thing though.
That's why the flying wing design does work so well. But we won't be seeing those in use anytime soon. Why? Because people are afraid of change. What airline would agree to drop billions on a fleet of new aircraft that are faster and more efficient, if the passengers will refuse to fly in them? So we continue seeing existing designs with subtle modifications. These frequently don't make it past the drawing board, and if you've looked around a commercial airport lately you'll see they're all still tubes with wings.
Like a balloon, the aircraft will expand a little bit because of the internal pressure. That is by design. With the increase of volume, the pressure inside would be reduced slightly.
What would be more problematic is that the passengers would start to die off on a long trip if the air was not exchanged with fresh air. Suffocation of the passengers and flight crew is not preferred.:) It would definitely reduce your repeat business. So they leak by design, and the air is replenished by the compressors (as you said).
From what I could see, crowd control was going fine. Well, until the crowd got pissed off about the arrest.
Public interaction is far different than a prison environment or military action. You don't have absolute control over the people, and you can't enforce anything you'd like on them.
Let me give you an example of dealing with a hostile person. This is a real situation I was personally in. It was in a county jail, where we were holding high risk inmates. They were bad felony (murder, rape, etc charges) and state prison felons back in county for hearings. The layout of the jail is pods. Each pod had 4 segments (72 degrees view from the pod control room into each inmate area). Three officers were stationed in the pod control room
It was the end of the day, and I went in to lock all the inmates down in their cells. They'd always fuck with the officers, especially the felons. I knew the rap sheet on most of them, so I knew what they were in for, and what to expect. I had the lower tier locked down and went up to the upper tier. The first cell I got to, the inmate wouldn't close his door, and was blocking it from being closed. Escalation of force was allowed at that point, since he were being physically non-compliant. I also had other inmates on the tier who hadn't been locked in yet.
The inmate told me "I already have a life sentence with no parole. I could kill you, and there's nothing worse they can do to me." Again, escalation of force is allowed, due to physical non-compliance, and verbal threat. I could have called for assistance, had him forcibly put in the restraint chair, and put him in solitary confinement. Instead, I said "It's lockdown time. I need to secure your door. Do what you have to do." We went back and forth with his threats and my simple instructions. He may have been able to take me down. He was bigger than me, and he had been convicted of murder, so he could be capable of doing it. If he had, the control room would have had every free officer in the place on him in no time, but I may have still been dead.
Instead of making the situation worse, I repeated my instructions and didn't show any fear. After a couple minutes, realizing that he couldn't scare me, he laughed, said he liked me, and shut the door.
Facing a known murderer who may be able to kill me, and knowing that the only retribution would be use of force by other officers (since I'd be down and/or dead), and he'd get another life sentence, I calmed the situation down. After that, he didn't mess with me. I know the word got passed around not to mess with me. Inmates don't have much to do but talk to each other, and figure out how to get out of their shitty situation. I had grief in other pods on occasion, but I treated them fairly. My job is to make sure they didn't escape, they didn't riot, they didn't hurt each other, and they complied with instructions. It's not necessary to make things any worse than they already are.
I don't know if Officer Bubbles had to, but where I was, every officer had to work in a jail or prison for at least 2 years before being allowed on the road. It does teach you how to deal with very adverse conditions from known worse cases.
So, the girl blowing bubbles was assaulting him with bubbles. Big fucking deal. She wasn't throwing rocks. She wasn't throwing shit, piss, or blood at him. She wasn't even trying to physically approach him. Diffuse the situation, don't make it worse. It works in jails where they've already proven a disrespect of the law, and it works in public. If (and only if) she had done something worse, would it be worth arresting her. So treat every person you meet like they are a murderer. Unless they've done something to deserve rough handling, there's nothing more that needs to be done. The use of force matrix says what your available options are. They don't say that they maximum level must be used.
I'm betting you've never worked in law enforcement. "interesting ways to solve the problem" usually end up causing more problems than just arresting the fucker. Or at least they do when there are witnesses around.
Actually, I have. And diffusing a situation is a lot easier that making it worse.
The female officer you saw at the beginning of the video had it right. She wasn't confrontational. She was laughing about it. For god's sake, it's just soap bubbles.
There is no part of a cops job-description which states "must act as play-thing for every twit he meets", and so police are not trained to take your shit.
There's no part of the job description that says "arrest every twit you meet that isn't absolutely friendly with you" and "pick fights with citizens so you can get your arrest count up"
If you were a cop and arrested every twit, prick, asshole, sarcastic bastard, backtalking bitch, jit, self-righteous asshole, the local jails would be full of people charged with "didn't play nice" and the courts would be throwing out just about every case.
The judges would be furious that their courtrooms are not serving justice, but filtering out this crap, and only occasionally hear a real case.
The citizens will be outraged that a huge percentage of the population gets arrested each and every time they get near a cop.
And of course, folks will start getting really really pissed off when the cops are busy arresting and transporting nonoffeners, while real crimes are being committed.
I get it, you're a gunner in the military. You don't have to deal well with others that you don't work with. Shoot 'em all, let the medics sort out the survivors. For the rest of the world, we have to try to get along.
Damn, and when I've been in Canada, every person I met up there was so annoyingly fucking friendly I was close to snapping, but I did find that liquor brings everyone down to a normal level, and apparently counteracts whatever happy drugs they put in the water and you can suddenly have an intelligent conversation with the locals. I don't know which corner of Canada you came from, but you need to go visit the nearest hospital and get your dose of happy meds, before they deport you to the US where you'd fit right in with the way off nutjobs who favor a police state over a civilized nation.
"Are you attacking me with... tiny soap bubbles of death? HAHAHAHA! I defeat your bubbles by blowing at them. I defeat your bubbles by poking them"
When that gets old, I'd reach down and smack the bottom of the bottle so it splashes on her.
"oops, sorry, I was reaching for my taser."
Then we could go play "juggle the cameras". I'm not very good at juggling, but it's entertaining while it lasts. Unfortunately, things tend to go up very high, and then down very hard to do some weird thing called.. umm.. gravity. I like the crashy breaky sounds.
But, I wouldn't arrest you, if I had arresting powers. There are always interesting ways to solve problems.
There was a bus detained in the area where that happened, where some of the passengers were suspected of belonging to a group who had already been detained, and weapons seized.
So, on his side, it was a bad situation.
On the girls side, she's just being a cute girl.
She could have been a diversion. She could have just been being cute, blowing bubbles. I suspect the later.
Arrest was not necessary. He needs to know how to diffuse confrontational situations, rather than escalating them.
I couldn't read all the comments. Not because there was any problem. I was just laughing too much.
I have something to say, on or off the record.
Sir (Officer Bubbles), you need to grow a sense of humor. You are in a public position, and in such a position, you may show up in the press which now does include places such as YouTube and Slashdot. In that, people are going to say what they feel, and this is something you're going to have to accept.
I'm sure you're a fine officer, and have done your job well for many years. I seriously hope you haven't arrested every person who's made fun of you.
And stop being a prick. You can't sue every person that says something you don't like. Well, you can, but you're just making yourself look like more of a prick.
Send the subpoena to my home in the antarctic. It shouldn't be hard to find. I put an inverted reindeer on the roof.:)
Hey, don't try so hard to burn up your 10 years of karma. I've been here longer, and I was replying to someone who's been here much longer than either of us. Check the uids. I can't say when I signed up, because it was long enough ago where I don't remember. Before that, I was posting AC, but it was suggested that I sign up, because most people are interested in what I write.
Now for the text. I wrote my opinion, like it or not. It may not fall in with Fox News and the fanboys, but you'll find that everything I said was factual. Well, except for the obvious opinion lines. If I were ever to sit down with her, I strongly suspect I'd leave her head spinning until she started chanting "Drill Baby Drill!", or pulled a complete Howard Dean.
I beg to differ with you. I've been to a few chiropractors over the years on strong suggestions of my friends. I did it mostly to shut them up.
Apparently my back is invincible (except for the chronic pain). They can bang, jump, and pound on my upper back, and nothing happened. Well, after a while it ends up with me saying "If you don't stop that, I'm going to get up and kick your ass."
My neck is pretty close to the same.
I don't think I'm that much of a tough guy, but I think I'd hold my own with a bunch of doctor wannabe's.
I shouldn't talk too much shit about them. I considered doing it. 6 months of night school, and then you get to call yourself "Doctor" and horribly overcharge patients *AND* get them to come back twice a week after that.:)
She isn't a sitting government official, so why the fark can't she have a TV show?
I'm sure some others can flesh out this list a bit more, but here's a start.
1) Because she's an idiot.
2) Because she's already made implications that she intends to run for President in 2012, therefore making her a political candidate.
3) Because she's an idiot.
4) Because unless slated as a fictional show, it should include something resembling fact. She doesn't have a firm grasp of the difference.
5) Because she's an idiot.
6) Because if you hire someone to do a show, the production company should have some expectation that she'll actually (ummm) work through the contract. Her work history isn't exactly perfect.
6a) She did serve 6 years as mayor of Wasilla, AK. Population of 10,000. I've been there. It's not like you're going to jump ship and go work somewhere else. She could stand at the edge of town and keep the Russians out, I guess. She did it before.:)
6b) She did serve about 2.5 years as governor, but spent part of that on leave during an investigation of abuse of power and ethics violations, and another large part of that campaigning. If I were to spend a year away from a job, to try to get a different job, that should raise concerns with future employers. When that fell through, she quit the first job anyways.
No, not "liberal slant". They're way off base on a lot of topics. Not just partisan bickering, they're just plain wrong. The partisan bickering is almost entertaining though.
I only mentioned CNN for the fact that they do run real news.:) I didn't say their facts are always right.
There used to be a tabloid paper called the "Weekly World News". They don't do their print edition any more. It was just as entertaining. They'd take one little fact, and roll up stories around it. The stories had no factual basis other than the single idea. They'd even badly doctor their photos, just to make it clear that they were entertainment. I read it for entertainment, since it wasn't too expensive, and there was usually some off the wall story included that made it worthwhile.
People fell for the "Weekly World News" news too. Since I had already read them, I recognized stories people would recite to me as fact later on. I'd ask them where they read it, and then remind them that it's a fictional work, loosely based on real elements.
Here's a good example on Fox vs reality. The story wasn't very important. It definitely wasn't national news worthy.
There is a way out, but you're not ready. When you are, we'll come and get you.
I will warn you though, it's not going to be comfortable. Your body has never developed many real muscles, so you won't be able to walk or talk. Even once you are, the reality here is not anywhere near as pretty as the simulation that you are currently in. You may believe decisions are life and death there, but they simply restart you in the simulator. Out here, there is no second chance.
I've always taken Fox News as a mix between The Onion and Comedy Central, with a splattering of CNN, to make sure they were actually talking about real issues or events.
I feel sorry for those who actually believe the crap that they say. I'm sure there's a true word here or there, but I wouldn't be willing to wager that there were more than say a dozen per day.
I was trying to get a first post, but I was taking a siesta. Maybe everyone else is too.:) Mine don't last very long. They're usually interrupted with the bosses saying "Wake up you lazy fuck, and get back to work."
In the middle of the night, "someone" goes in, collects everything, and it's replaced with dummy supplies. (i.e., filing cabinets full of blank paper, computers with blank hard drives, etc). Then the actual developers are suddenly and quietly moved off to another site, but that's ok, because replacements were left in place where necessary.
It's a terrible shame, but it seems there was some sort of gas leak in the building(s), which ignited at approximately 11pm. Everyone (cadavers) in the building(s) were killed and burned beyond recognition or dental analysis. Oh well, I guess everything was lost.
Meanwhile, in some black ops building in some god forsaken location, the work goes on.:)
It's a lot easier to disappear someone, than it is to put them in jail or even gitmo. In jail, they'll likely be able to talk to someone. Keeping someone quiet means keeping them from talking to anyone. You really don't want classified materials wandering around with unvetted individuals. Jail is not the place most conducive to people keeping secrets for you. It's just a very little bit harder to get them out.
Do you trust your employer to monitor anything and everything that you do at work?
For everyone else, what's going to happen when you find out that they've been logging all traffic in and out, and then there's a change in management? That Google search you did last month for "Obama healthcare plan" may not sit so well with the die-hard born again conservative republican fanatics who are now upper management? Quietly labeled as a neo socialist anti-American, they may decide it's necessary to downsize your department by one (namely, you).
I don't trust any network that I don't manage, and I know where all the monitoring points are, and what they log. Sure, transit and endpoints may intercept, but it's far less damaging than your boss seeing you searching for "nigritude ultramarine".:)
It's fair and equal coverage, just like Fox News provides.
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Microsoft and Apple won't ever die, when Mac Fanbois who can't afford their favorite toys continue buy copies of OS/X and install it on store bought PC's that were shipped with Windows on them.:)
Long live the Hackintosh, for those who want *nix without admitting they are using *nix.:)
Well, until licensing verification gets good enough where they can't be hacked around. Windows did a good job with 7, it wasn't cracked until 85 days before the official launch.:) OS/X 10.4.4 was cracked in 35 days, and subsequent fixes took about 2 weeks on each update.
*Linux and *BSD on the other hand still haven't had any activation hacks written, nor intentional attempts by the publisher to disable your machine remotely to make you pay for a license.
Note: I say "make you pay for a license", because some valid copies of other products have run into activation and continued use problems, which suggest that end users pay for their license again. Oh and dear god don't forget to make the restore CD from the vendor, which they put on the hard drive, so when the drive dies, you're stuck waiting for a mail order replacement or purchasing a new full copy locally.
Sure, for the scale, we'll give it a pair of Estes D rocket engines, that you can replace as often as you like until you see the futility of it. It'll be expensive, and still not do the job, just like putting whatever rocket engine you'd like on a big asteroid and thinking it's going to make a difference.
You folks just aren't comprehending the scale of which we're discussing. It's not just a rock flying through space, but even if it was, it wouldn't make a difference. You're competing with the gravity of planets and stars.
Well, I don't exactly have a workable scenario that can be demonstrated here on Earth, where friction is everywhere. Would you be happier if I said "and the tractor-trailer was in neutral, levitating on a magnetic platform, in a vacuum, and the moped was on a hard dry surface". There, advantage to the moped. I still don't see it getting very far.
If you can find me such a test rig here on Earth, I'd be more than happy to find a tractor-trailer and moped to demonstrate with.
I'm familiar with them. A very very little bit of thrust for an awful long time. It'd work for something small, but for something big, you're hoping to move something with no effective thrust.
And the question then becomes, how are you going to get something with enough thrust to even attempt to make a dent, far enough out into space to do it? As I demonstrated earlier in this thread, a Saturn V rocket wouldn't be enough, and we don't have a way to get an unfired Saturn V into orbit, much less as far out as you're suggesting. There's the logistics of landing it at the right place, securing the rocket, and firing it at the right time to move it. And no, Bruce Willis isn't an option for that.
Even still, you're suggesting trying to tow a loaded tractor trailer with a moped. You can try. It won't move.
I'd be willing to bet that anything that it such a plan could move would have simply burned up in the atmosphere, or left a small crater for folks to research and argue about the origins of the universe.
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Actually, there have been some interesting shapes other than phallic proposed.
1950's Northrup Flying Wing (passenger aircraft)
1995 Boeing BWB (1995 Popular Science article showing 800 passenger airliner)
2000's Boeing Blended Wing Body (BWB) X-48B
Concept (predicted by 2040) Airbus A350H
When designing an aircraft, you have to consider how much air it has to shove out of the way. To accomplish that, they slowly taper the cross section from nothing (in front of the plane) to the cabin size, and then keep that cross section until they taper it back down to nothing.
The cross section doesn't have to be round, although it helps design a strong frame. It could be a wide oval, or something completely different. Hard corners tend to be a bad thing though.
That's why the flying wing design does work so well. But we won't be seeing those in use anytime soon. Why? Because people are afraid of change. What airline would agree to drop billions on a fleet of new aircraft that are faster and more efficient, if the passengers will refuse to fly in them? So we continue seeing existing designs with subtle modifications. These frequently don't make it past the drawing board, and if you've looked around a commercial airport lately you'll see they're all still tubes with wings.
Well, close, but not quite right.
Like a balloon, the aircraft will expand a little bit because of the internal pressure. That is by design. With the increase of volume, the pressure inside would be reduced slightly.
What would be more problematic is that the passengers would start to die off on a long trip if the air was not exchanged with fresh air. Suffocation of the passengers and flight crew is not preferred. :) It would definitely reduce your repeat business. So they leak by design, and the air is replenished by the compressors (as you said).
From what I could see, crowd control was going fine. Well, until the crowd got pissed off about the arrest.
Public interaction is far different than a prison environment or military action. You don't have absolute control over the people, and you can't enforce anything you'd like on them.
Let me give you an example of dealing with a hostile person. This is a real situation I was personally in. It was in a county jail, where we were holding high risk inmates. They were bad felony (murder, rape, etc charges) and state prison felons back in county for hearings. The layout of the jail is pods. Each pod had 4 segments (72 degrees view from the pod control room into each inmate area). Three officers were stationed in the pod control room
It was the end of the day, and I went in to lock all the inmates down in their cells. They'd always fuck with the officers, especially the felons. I knew the rap sheet on most of them, so I knew what they were in for, and what to expect. I had the lower tier locked down and went up to the upper tier. The first cell I got to, the inmate wouldn't close his door, and was blocking it from being closed. Escalation of force was allowed at that point, since he were being physically non-compliant. I also had other inmates on the tier who hadn't been locked in yet.
The inmate told me "I already have a life sentence with no parole. I could kill you, and there's nothing worse they can do to me." Again, escalation of force is allowed, due to physical non-compliance, and verbal threat. I could have called for assistance, had him forcibly put in the restraint chair, and put him in solitary confinement. Instead, I said "It's lockdown time. I need to secure your door. Do what you have to do." We went back and forth with his threats and my simple instructions. He may have been able to take me down. He was bigger than me, and he had been convicted of murder, so he could be capable of doing it. If he had, the control room would have had every free officer in the place on him in no time, but I may have still been dead.
Instead of making the situation worse, I repeated my instructions and didn't show any fear. After a couple minutes, realizing that he couldn't scare me, he laughed, said he liked me, and shut the door.
Facing a known murderer who may be able to kill me, and knowing that the only retribution would be use of force by other officers (since I'd be down and/or dead), and he'd get another life sentence, I calmed the situation down. After that, he didn't mess with me. I know the word got passed around not to mess with me. Inmates don't have much to do but talk to each other, and figure out how to get out of their shitty situation. I had grief in other pods on occasion, but I treated them fairly. My job is to make sure they didn't escape, they didn't riot, they didn't hurt each other, and they complied with instructions. It's not necessary to make things any worse than they already are.
I don't know if Officer Bubbles had to, but where I was, every officer had to work in a jail or prison for at least 2 years before being allowed on the road. It does teach you how to deal with very adverse conditions from known worse cases.
So, the girl blowing bubbles was assaulting him with bubbles. Big fucking deal. She wasn't throwing rocks. She wasn't throwing shit, piss, or blood at him. She wasn't even trying to physically approach him. Diffuse the situation, don't make it worse. It works in jails where they've already proven a disrespect of the law, and it works in public. If (and only if) she had done something worse, would it be worth arresting her. So treat every person you meet like they are a murderer. Unless they've done something to deserve rough handling, there's nothing more that needs to be done. The use of force matrix says what your available options are. They don't say that they maximum level must be used.
Actually, I have. And diffusing a situation is a lot easier that making it worse.
The female officer you saw at the beginning of the video had it right. She wasn't confrontational. She was laughing about it. For god's sake, it's just soap bubbles.
There's no part of the job description that says "arrest every twit you meet that isn't absolutely friendly with you" and "pick fights with citizens so you can get your arrest count up"
If you were a cop and arrested every twit, prick, asshole, sarcastic bastard, backtalking bitch, jit, self-righteous asshole, the local jails would be full of people charged with "didn't play nice" and the courts would be throwing out just about every case.
The judges would be furious that their courtrooms are not serving justice, but filtering out this crap, and only occasionally hear a real case.
The citizens will be outraged that a huge percentage of the population gets arrested each and every time they get near a cop.
And of course, folks will start getting really really pissed off when the cops are busy arresting and transporting nonoffeners, while real crimes are being committed.
I get it, you're a gunner in the military. You don't have to deal well with others that you don't work with. Shoot 'em all, let the medics sort out the survivors. For the rest of the world, we have to try to get along.
Damn, and when I've been in Canada, every person I met up there was so annoyingly fucking friendly I was close to snapping, but I did find that liquor brings everyone down to a normal level, and apparently counteracts whatever happy drugs they put in the water and you can suddenly have an intelligent conversation with the locals. I don't know which corner of Canada you came from, but you need to go visit the nearest hospital and get your dose of happy meds, before they deport you to the US where you'd fit right in with the way off nutjobs who favor a police state over a civilized nation.
Come on by.
"Are you attacking me with ... tiny soap bubbles of death? HAHAHAHA! I defeat your bubbles by blowing at them. I defeat your bubbles by poking them"
When that gets old, I'd reach down and smack the bottom of the bottle so it splashes on her.
"oops, sorry, I was reaching for my taser."
Then we could go play "juggle the cameras". I'm not very good at juggling, but it's entertaining while it lasts. Unfortunately, things tend to go up very high, and then down very hard to do some weird thing called .. umm .. gravity. I like the crashy breaky sounds.
But, I wouldn't arrest you, if I had arresting powers. There are always interesting ways to solve problems.
It's explained in the claim. Well, mostly.
There was a bus detained in the area where that happened, where some of the passengers were suspected of belonging to a group who had already been detained, and weapons seized.
So, on his side, it was a bad situation.
On the girls side, she's just being a cute girl.
She could have been a diversion. She could have just been being cute, blowing bubbles. I suspect the later.
Arrest was not necessary. He needs to know how to diffuse confrontational situations, rather than escalating them.
I couldn't read all the comments. Not because there was any problem. I was just laughing too much.
I have something to say, on or off the record.
Sir (Officer Bubbles), you need to grow a sense of humor. You are in a public position, and in such a position, you may show up in the press which now does include places such as YouTube and Slashdot. In that, people are going to say what they feel, and this is something you're going to have to accept.
I'm sure you're a fine officer, and have done your job well for many years. I seriously hope you haven't arrested every person who's made fun of you.
And stop being a prick. You can't sue every person that says something you don't like. Well, you can, but you're just making yourself look like more of a prick.
Send the subpoena to my home in the antarctic. It shouldn't be hard to find. I put an inverted reindeer on the roof. :)
Si. Felicidades!
It sounds like the thief would have been kinder to steal a newer machine for the professor, preload it with his data, and send *that* back to him. :)
Hey, don't try so hard to burn up your 10 years of karma. I've been here longer, and I was replying to someone who's been here much longer than either of us. Check the uids. I can't say when I signed up, because it was long enough ago where I don't remember. Before that, I was posting AC, but it was suggested that I sign up, because most people are interested in what I write.
Now for the text. I wrote my opinion, like it or not. It may not fall in with Fox News and the fanboys, but you'll find that everything I said was factual. Well, except for the obvious opinion lines. If I were ever to sit down with her, I strongly suspect I'd leave her head spinning until she started chanting "Drill Baby Drill!", or pulled a complete Howard Dean.
Anxiety disorders and phobia of technology is not a reason to ban something. Should we cater to all the folks with agoraphobia, and ban the outdoors?
I beg to differ with you. I've been to a few chiropractors over the years on strong suggestions of my friends. I did it mostly to shut them up.
Apparently my back is invincible (except for the chronic pain). They can bang, jump, and pound on my upper back, and nothing happened. Well, after a while it ends up with me saying "If you don't stop that, I'm going to get up and kick your ass."
My neck is pretty close to the same.
I don't think I'm that much of a tough guy, but I think I'd hold my own with a bunch of doctor wannabe's.
I shouldn't talk too much shit about them. I considered doing it. 6 months of night school, and then you get to call yourself "Doctor" and horribly overcharge patients *AND* get them to come back twice a week after that. :)
I'm sure some others can flesh out this list a bit more, but here's a start.
1) Because she's an idiot.
2) Because she's already made implications that she intends to run for President in 2012, therefore making her a political candidate.
3) Because she's an idiot.
4) Because unless slated as a fictional show, it should include something resembling fact. She doesn't have a firm grasp of the difference.
5) Because she's an idiot.
6) Because if you hire someone to do a show, the production company should have some expectation that she'll actually (ummm) work through the contract. Her work history isn't exactly perfect.
6a) She did serve 6 years as mayor of Wasilla, AK. Population of 10,000. I've been there. It's not like you're going to jump ship and go work somewhere else. She could stand at the edge of town and keep the Russians out, I guess. She did it before. :)
6b) She did serve about 2.5 years as governor, but spent part of that on leave during an investigation of abuse of power and ethics violations, and another large part of that campaigning. If I were to spend a year away from a job, to try to get a different job, that should raise concerns with future employers. When that fell through, she quit the first job anyways.
6c) She's an idiot.
No, not "liberal slant". They're way off base on a lot of topics. Not just partisan bickering, they're just plain wrong. The partisan bickering is almost entertaining though.
I only mentioned CNN for the fact that they do run real news. :) I didn't say their facts are always right.
There used to be a tabloid paper called the "Weekly World News". They don't do their print edition any more. It was just as entertaining. They'd take one little fact, and roll up stories around it. The stories had no factual basis other than the single idea. They'd even badly doctor their photos, just to make it clear that they were entertainment. I read it for entertainment, since it wasn't too expensive, and there was usually some off the wall story included that made it worthwhile.
People fell for the "Weekly World News" news too. Since I had already read them, I recognized stories people would recite to me as fact later on. I'd ask them where they read it, and then remind them that it's a fictional work, loosely based on real elements.
Here's a good example on Fox vs reality. The story wasn't very important. It definitely wasn't national news worthy.
Fox News story (scroll down to the video)
Then the local news report.
There is a way out, but you're not ready. When you are, we'll come and get you.
I will warn you though, it's not going to be comfortable. Your body has never developed many real muscles, so you won't be able to walk or talk. Even once you are, the reality here is not anywhere near as pretty as the simulation that you are currently in. You may believe decisions are life and death there, but they simply restart you in the simulator. Out here, there is no second chance.
I've always taken Fox News as a mix between The Onion and Comedy Central, with a splattering of CNN, to make sure they were actually talking about real issues or events.
I feel sorry for those who actually believe the crap that they say. I'm sure there's a true word here or there, but I wouldn't be willing to wager that there were more than say a dozen per day.
I was trying to get a first post, but I was taking a siesta. Maybe everyone else is too. :) Mine don't last very long. They're usually interrupted with the bosses saying "Wake up you lazy fuck, and get back to work."
No, no, no, you have it all wrong.
In the middle of the night, "someone" goes in, collects everything, and it's replaced with dummy supplies. (i.e., filing cabinets full of blank paper, computers with blank hard drives, etc). Then the actual developers are suddenly and quietly moved off to another site, but that's ok, because replacements were left in place where necessary.
It's a terrible shame, but it seems there was some sort of gas leak in the building(s), which ignited at approximately 11pm. Everyone (cadavers) in the building(s) were killed and burned beyond recognition or dental analysis. Oh well, I guess everything was lost.
Meanwhile, in some black ops building in some god forsaken location, the work goes on. :)
It's a lot easier to disappear someone, than it is to put them in jail or even gitmo. In jail, they'll likely be able to talk to someone. Keeping someone quiet means keeping them from talking to anyone. You really don't want classified materials wandering around with unvetted individuals. Jail is not the place most conducive to people keeping secrets for you. It's just a very little bit harder to get them out.
Isn't that the only way you should work?
Do you trust your employer to monitor anything and everything that you do at work?
For everyone else, what's going to happen when you find out that they've been logging all traffic in and out, and then there's a change in management? That Google search you did last month for "Obama healthcare plan" may not sit so well with the die-hard born again conservative republican fanatics who are now upper management? Quietly labeled as a neo socialist anti-American, they may decide it's necessary to downsize your department by one (namely, you).
I don't trust any network that I don't manage, and I know where all the monitoring points are, and what they log. Sure, transit and endpoints may intercept, but it's far less damaging than your boss seeing you searching for "nigritude ultramarine". :)
It's fair and equal coverage, just like Fox News provides.
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Microsoft and Apple won't ever die, when Mac Fanbois who can't afford their favorite toys continue buy copies of OS/X and install it on store bought PC's that were shipped with Windows on them. :)
Long live the Hackintosh, for those who want *nix without admitting they are using *nix. :)
Well, until licensing verification gets good enough where they can't be hacked around. Windows did a good job with 7, it wasn't cracked until 85 days before the official launch. :) OS/X 10.4.4 was cracked in 35 days, and subsequent fixes took about 2 weeks on each update.
*Linux and *BSD on the other hand still haven't had any activation hacks written, nor intentional attempts by the publisher to disable your machine remotely to make you pay for a license.
Note: I say "make you pay for a license", because some valid copies of other products have run into activation and continued use problems, which suggest that end users pay for their license again. Oh and dear god don't forget to make the restore CD from the vendor, which they put on the hard drive, so when the drive dies, you're stuck waiting for a mail order replacement or purchasing a new full copy locally.
Why go through the conversion losses at all? Just plug a hotplate into the wall.
Every conversion has losses. That's why the power supply has heat sinks inside, and usually a fan. It's also why wall warts get warm.
Sure, for the scale, we'll give it a pair of Estes D rocket engines, that you can replace as often as you like until you see the futility of it. It'll be expensive, and still not do the job, just like putting whatever rocket engine you'd like on a big asteroid and thinking it's going to make a difference.
You folks just aren't comprehending the scale of which we're discussing. It's not just a rock flying through space, but even if it was, it wouldn't make a difference. You're competing with the gravity of planets and stars.
Well, I don't exactly have a workable scenario that can be demonstrated here on Earth, where friction is everywhere. Would you be happier if I said "and the tractor-trailer was in neutral, levitating on a magnetic platform, in a vacuum, and the moped was on a hard dry surface". There, advantage to the moped. I still don't see it getting very far.
If you can find me such a test rig here on Earth, I'd be more than happy to find a tractor-trailer and moped to demonstrate with.
I'm familiar with them. A very very little bit of thrust for an awful long time. It'd work for something small, but for something big, you're hoping to move something with no effective thrust.
And the question then becomes, how are you going to get something with enough thrust to even attempt to make a dent, far enough out into space to do it? As I demonstrated earlier in this thread, a Saturn V rocket wouldn't be enough, and we don't have a way to get an unfired Saturn V into orbit, much less as far out as you're suggesting. There's the logistics of landing it at the right place, securing the rocket, and firing it at the right time to move it. And no, Bruce Willis isn't an option for that.
Even still, you're suggesting trying to tow a loaded tractor trailer with a moped. You can try. It won't move.
I'd be willing to bet that anything that it such a plan could move would have simply burned up in the atmosphere, or left a small crater for folks to research and argue about the origins of the universe.