These things aren't necessarily for humans to ride in. Wouldn't it be cool to have these things carrying electronics for various purposes? I think that there are already proposals to use derigibles for cell-phone base stations (or whatever they're cslled).
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Stop bashing people for American Provincialism until you know the score.
I don't think you need to worry about that. Your right to quote that phrase should be protected by fair use rights. Even RMS doesn't release quotes under GPL.
Playing pool would be a good aid to getting a handle on asteroids bumping into each other, except for two things. First, collisions in pool are mostly elastic, so there isn't that much loss of momentum. You can't expect that from asteroids or the moon. Second, pool balls are, in an honest game, all roughly the same mass. The moon is much bigger than an asteroid, and the forces keeping in in balance with the earth are probably enough to absorb a little asteroid collision easily.
Personally, I prefer a funny name like MADMEN to one that is deliberate propaganda, like "Defense of Marriage Act", or one that sounds vaguely chilling, like PATRIOT act. Don't get me started on phrases like "Digital Milennium".
The way I see it, the explosion is pushing out in all directions. The gun barrel isn't about to change shape, since it's strong. The bullet is pushed out of the gun. The explosion also pushes back against the gun.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but why wouldn't the explosion push the gun backwards?
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I've never found plots about magical code-breaking machines that can crack any code (by magic apparently, and repeal of mathematics) to be very plausible. It's as if people believe that the NSA trumps reality.
No, members of the radical right generally believe in the Bible and often that it is literal and all true. It can be fun to poke them back with stuff like the "science fiction" quip.
Stop misinterpreting what others say, and please (I implore you) use commas.
Perhaps, but here's how I would go about it if I were evil and powerful: I would make large contributions to various politicians, and let them know that, in order to protect the consumer, it was in everybody's best interest to require regulation of the counterfeit diamond industry. After all, would you want to buy a diamond only to discover that it was a fake? And your wife, if she found out, would get a divorce! Yes, it's true: diamonds trap women's souls!
It is of the utmost importance, I say utmost importance, that we regulate the diamond industry so that distribution is kept in the hands of reputable sellers rather than being flooded by unstable counterfeiters! And if you don't support it, I'll cut off some of your reelection funding!
We don't have to put dots in our files. Sure, Windows never was very happy about those files with names like "README", but any decent OS can handle them.
Yes, that is a rather nice proof. It's sometimes fun to read through part of a math textbook and follow some proofs. Sometimes you get something that's pretty clever.
Those are both excellent suggestions, and option 1 occurred to me (I, too, thought that would be faster), and either of those would have appeased any normal teacher (bless their sane hearts), but this teacher was the Math Teacher from Hell. She wasn't teaching a more advanced math class (this was quite some time ago), she was teaching Algebra 1. She never looked past the obvious, nor did she encourage us to do so, though she might have given extra points if I had pointed out the recent efforts to prove pi normal. I'd say that the most interesting assignment she gave me was a worksheet which involved figuring out a formula relating the number of edges and veritces for polyhedra. But that one had the same problem as all the others: we first had to count up the edges and vertices, manually, for just about everything from a tetrahedron to an icosahedron. They were all like that: enough interesting stuff for about ten seconds, then enough busywork to make you hate math class, the teacher, and sometimes your life in general. And those are the good assignments, the cream of the crop. Most assignments were just row after row of the same problem, with trivial variations thrown in, which would have been appropriate for a remedial class, but not for a special class for "advanced" students, which was what that class was billed as.
If this has turned into a bitch-fest, I apologize, as that was not my intent. With any teacher that I respect, you would be absolutely right. But this one was... different.
OTOH, it is sometimes easy to figure out what is mindless busywork. In my current math class, I know that the teacher knows what he's doing, and I pay attention even when we're doing something that doesn't seem all that useful. In a previous math class with a different teacher, though, there was a lot of stuff that I knew was pointless. For example, it's interesting to note that the digits in pi occur with roughly equal frequency, but that we don't have a proof of this. It is not interesting to count the frequencies of the first 200 digits of pi by hand to convince ourselves of this, and then to get a bad grade on it because we missed a digit somewhere. That's just one example; this class was universally awful. I guess it all comes down to personal judgement: do I trust this teacher?
The public education system in the US is typically pretty affordable---if you pay your taxes, you get schooling for no extra cost! College is more expensive, but scholarships and student loans and such are everywhere. It could use a lot of work and improvement, but it isn't an unmitigated piece of crap everywhere.
Because you haven't heard him when he's his normal, composed self? Seriously, he isn't screaming all the time, despite what all the self-fulfilling prophets would tell you.
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These things aren't necessarily for humans to ride in. Wouldn't it be cool to have these things carrying electronics for various purposes? I think that there are already proposals to use derigibles for cell-phone base stations (or whatever they're cslled).
Of course not. Nobody takes the law seriously unless they're being sued, in which case it suddenly becomes important. :-)
Well, that completely demolishes the argument. :-)
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Stop bashing people for American Provincialism until you know the score.
The liberal media seem to have that down pat, what with their rampant conservative bias.
Love of freedom and democracy, and caring about the rights of the people? *snort*
It has a ring to it, doesn't it?
I don't think you need to worry about that. Your right to quote that phrase should be protected by fair use rights. Even RMS doesn't release quotes under GPL.
Playing pool would be a good aid to getting a handle on asteroids bumping into each other, except for two things. First, collisions in pool are mostly elastic, so there isn't that much loss of momentum. You can't expect that from asteroids or the moon. Second, pool balls are, in an honest game, all roughly the same mass. The moon is much bigger than an asteroid, and the forces keeping in in balance with the earth are probably enough to absorb a little asteroid collision easily.
Personally, I prefer a funny name like MADMEN to one that is deliberate propaganda, like "Defense of Marriage Act", or one that sounds vaguely chilling, like PATRIOT act. Don't get me started on phrases like "Digital Milennium".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but why wouldn't the explosion push the gun backwards?
Technically, they can.
I've never found plots about magical code-breaking machines that can crack any code (by magic apparently, and repeal of mathematics) to be very plausible. It's as if people believe that the NSA trumps reality.
I just downloaded the latest snapshot, and it won't even start. I was hoping this one would be faster, but I can't find out if that's true or not....
Firewalling may not be possible, but tracking down and imprisoning users could be.
You didn't? Neither did I.
Stop misinterpreting what others say, and please (I implore you) use commas.
Occasionally people prefer less extreme ways of getting such information, like asking somebody. :-)
It is of the utmost importance, I say utmost importance, that we regulate the diamond industry so that distribution is kept in the hands of reputable sellers rather than being flooded by unstable counterfeiters! And if you don't support it, I'll cut off some of your reelection funding!
We don't have to put dots in our files. Sure, Windows never was very happy about those files with names like "README", but any decent OS can handle them.
Yes, that is a rather nice proof. It's sometimes fun to read through part of a math textbook and follow some proofs. Sometimes you get something that's pretty clever.
If this has turned into a bitch-fest, I apologize, as that was not my intent. With any teacher that I respect, you would be absolutely right. But this one was... different.
OTOH, it is sometimes easy to figure out what is mindless busywork. In my current math class, I know that the teacher knows what he's doing, and I pay attention even when we're doing something that doesn't seem all that useful. In a previous math class with a different teacher, though, there was a lot of stuff that I knew was pointless. For example, it's interesting to note that the digits in pi occur with roughly equal frequency, but that we don't have a proof of this. It is not interesting to count the frequencies of the first 200 digits of pi by hand to convince ourselves of this, and then to get a bad grade on it because we missed a digit somewhere. That's just one example; this class was universally awful. I guess it all comes down to personal judgement: do I trust this teacher?
The public education system in the US is typically pretty affordable---if you pay your taxes, you get schooling for no extra cost! College is more expensive, but scholarships and student loans and such are everywhere. It could use a lot of work and improvement, but it isn't an unmitigated piece of crap everywhere.
Because you haven't heard him when he's his normal, composed self? Seriously, he isn't screaming all the time, despite what all the self-fulfilling prophets would tell you.