I suspect that the DOD has a hand in putting things like this in popular video games (not to mention TV and movies).
Hey, remember that time in nov2001 when the pentagon and the whitehouse had meetings with hollywood to "discuss scenarios"? The media always framed that as "for hollywood to suggest scenarios to the DoD", I always figured it was the other way around.
In late 1997, Congress approved an immense, five-year, $1 billion ad buy for anti-drug advertising as long as the networks sold ad time to the government at half price -- a two-for-one deal that provided over $2 billion worth of ads for a $1 billion allocation.
But the five participating networks weren't crazy about the deal from the start. And when, soon after, they were deluged with the fruits of a booming economy, most particularly an unexpected wave of dot-com ads, they liked it even less.
So the drug czar's office, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), presented the networks with a compromise: The office would give up some of that precious ad time it had bought -- in return for getting anti-drug motifs incorporated within specific prime-time shows. That created a new, more potent strain of the anti-drug social engineering the government wanted. And it allowed the TV networks to resell the ad time at the going rate to IBM, Microsoft or Yahoo.
Alan Levitt, the drug-policy official running the campaign, estimates that the networks have benefited to the tune of nearly $25 million thus far.
With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.
Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."
The arrangement, uncovered by a six-month Salon News investigation, is known to only a few insiders in Hollywood, New York and Washington. Almost none of the producers and writers crafting the anti-drug episodes knew of the deal. And top officials from the five networks involved last season -- NBC, ABC, CBS, the WB and Fox -- for the most part refused to discuss it.
Do you go out of your way to find the way in which you can legally give the government the most possible tax revenue?
It is absurd to suggest that
Yes, it is absurd that you suggest going from paying your fair share to "out of your way to give the most".
The issue is that they take the services of one state without paying the taxes that fund those services, it's not honest. If they want to legally be in Nevada, let them use Nevada's courts, that wouldn't be absurd.
Ah, thanks for that info. I have no idea how the in-wheel weight affected the vibrations, but the computer control was meant to achieve high performance in acceleration (they had a nice demo on gravel, quite impressive), braking and handling (redistributing force one four wheel motors), which would compensate for that effect. And let's not forget that the motors are the brakes, and there is no drive shaft, etc.
There's a small problem with those... unstrung weight is really bad for handling, braking, and ride quality.
I don't know what unstrung weight refers to in cars... but as far as that prototype I linked about, it had a computer controlling the 4 wheel motors, which was really good for handling, braking, accelerating and ride quality.
They had a working prototype, they approached Detroit to get their making-cars expertise... and the project gets quickly scrapped for no apparent reason.
Accountants are boring, soulless drones. "Weird" to them is wearing a different shade of beige than the rest of the accountants.
I don't know. Someone who deals with numbers that much, following labyrinthine trails of debits and credits, can't be entirely sane. They are at least distantly related to mathematicians, who are outright loons.
Well, their insanity lies in their bland conformity.
Strange, weird and unique peoples work in every sphere of society. You only think coders are special because you happen to hang out with coders and not, say, accountants. If you were hanging out with accountants, you would find accountants a weird and diverse bunch too,
Accountants are boring, soulless drones. "Weird" to them is wearing a different shade of beige than the rest of the accountants.
From the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, the premier psychological dictionary of Britain:
sociopathyn. Another name for antisocial personality disorder. sociopathn. A person with sociopathy.
And here's the definiton of antisocial personality disorder:
antisocial personality disordern. A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, beginning in childhood or early adolescence and continuing into adulthood, with such signs and symptoms as failure to conform to social norms, manifested by repeated unlawful behaviour; deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying or swindling [confidence trickery] for pleasure or personal gain; impulsivity or failure to plan ahead; irritability and aggressiveness involving frequent assaults or fights; reckless disregard for the safety of self or others; consistent irresponsibilty involving failure to hold down jobs or to honour financial obligations; and lack of remorse for the mistreatment of others, as indicated by indifference or rationalization.
Please note that not all of these indicators need necessarily be present for a diagnosis of sociopathy, but my apologies, I don't have a copy of the DSMIV with me right now.
If only you had acces to the internet, and therefore wikipedia...
Diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV-TR)
A) There is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and the rights of others occurring since the age of 15, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:[1]
1. failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest;
2. deceitfulness, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure;
3. impulsivity or failure to plan ahead;
4. irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults;
5. reckless disregard for safety of self or others;
6. consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations;
7. lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
B) The individual is at least 18 years of age.
C) There is evidence of Conduct disorder with onset before age 15.
D) The occurrance of antisocial behavior is not exclusively during the course of schizophrenia or a manic episode.
[3] Deceit and manipulation are considered essential features of the disorder. Therefore, it is essential in making the diagnosis to collect material from sources other than the individual being diagnosed. [edit] Symptoms
Characteristics of people with antisocial personality disorder may include:[4]
* Persistent lying or stealing
* Superficial charm[5][6]
* Apparent lack of remorse[5] or empathy; inability to care about hurting others
* Inability to keep jobs or stay in school[5]
* Impulsivity and/or recklessness[5]
* Lack of realistic, long-term goals — an inability or persistent failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals
What the A-Team taught me was that all it takes to build an impregnable armored vehicle is a few empty 50 gallon drums. We'd have this Afghanistan thing wrapped up tomorrow if they could just ship a bunch of vans, empty 50 gal. drums and a welding torch or two over there.
...why exactly? How is ST any different from any other sci-fi series like BSG or Firefly? It's not as if those show have any less technobabble or are any less characters-first-technology-second.
Have you watched Firefly? It had a lot less technobabble and a lot more sino-babble. But to answer your question: He's picking on Star Trek because it is THE iconic sci-fi show: People who do not watch sci-fi know it despite not watching it; they don't know Firefly, and they don't know BSG..
"But, yes, when you admit that Star Trek has as much to do with plausibly extrapolated science as The A-Team has to do with a realistic look at the lives of military veterans, life gets easier. "
One of the things that made the biggest impression on me from the last Star Trek movie was that what once was futuristic devices are now things that we are told to turn off before the movie starts: Watching Mama Kirk talk to Papa Kirk over a commu^H^H^H^H^Hcell phone.
The other thing was how stupid the Red Matter McGuffin was: "So Spock is flying around in a ship that can make black holes of any star when...".
Therefore, I think that guy you quoted was 50% correct, and 50% dumb.
I've been a journalist since 1978, and the most important thing I learned was to go back to the source and check my facts. Most bloggers don't check their facts. But don't feel bad. A lot of New York Times reporters don't check their facts either.
And there you have it. The only difference between a blogger and a journalist is the organization backing up the latter.
Journals, or dailies if you will, are nothing more than web logs. They have no more moral value, inherent, by virtue of being printed on paper rather than displayed on a screen. If a blogger does his research, names his sources, and stays honest, he's a journalist just as much as an employee of a major metropolitan newspaper. We just need a few bloggers to gain respectability through sustained effort.
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I suspect that the DOD has a hand in putting things like this in popular video games (not to mention TV and movies).
Hey, remember that time in nov2001 when the pentagon and the whitehouse had meetings with hollywood to "discuss scenarios"? The media always framed that as "for hollywood to suggest scenarios to the DoD", I always figured it was the other way around.
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html
In late 1997, Congress approved an immense, five-year, $1 billion ad buy for anti-drug advertising as long as the networks sold ad time to the government at half price -- a two-for-one deal that provided over $2 billion worth of ads for a $1 billion allocation.
But the five participating networks weren't crazy about the deal from the start. And when, soon after, they were deluged with the fruits of a booming economy, most particularly an unexpected wave of dot-com ads, they liked it even less.
So the drug czar's office, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), presented the networks with a compromise: The office would give up some of that precious ad time it had bought -- in return for getting anti-drug motifs incorporated within specific prime-time shows. That created a new, more potent strain of the anti-drug social engineering the government wanted. And it allowed the TV networks to resell the ad time at the going rate to IBM, Microsoft or Yahoo.
Alan Levitt, the drug-policy official running the campaign, estimates that the networks have benefited to the tune of nearly $25 million thus far.
With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.
Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."
The arrangement, uncovered by a six-month Salon News investigation, is known to only a few insiders in Hollywood, New York and Washington. Almost none of the producers and writers crafting the anti-drug episodes knew of the deal. And top officials from the five networks involved last season -- NBC, ABC, CBS, the WB and Fox -- for the most part refused to discuss it.
(I mean, who ever made a profit pleasing customers?)
(Whores?)
well what are you even whining about?
Other people having better TVs than him.
I already waited for the rental rather than going to the theater. Hope it works out for them.
You're such a good soul! I, however, hope some rats gnaw off their balls.
I am an ex-IT engineer turned airline pilot (currently flying Airbus A320)
Dude, did you learn nothing from this story? Don't post to slashdot when you're flying!It'll get you in trouble! ;-)
Do you go out of your way to find the way in which you can legally give the government the most possible tax revenue?
It is absurd to suggest that
Yes, it is absurd that you suggest going from paying your fair share to "out of your way to give the most".
The issue is that they take the services of one state without paying the taxes that fund those services, it's not honest. If they want to legally be in Nevada, let them use Nevada's courts, that wouldn't be absurd.
Is there any patent involved in the invention that you know of?
If there is, then there's no point of further research, since the patent holder would exert their right over everything else.
Yup, either Hydro-Québec or it's subsidiary TM4 holds the patents. Probably TM4, since it was created specifically to handle that technology.
He meant Unsprung Weight, or the weight of the wheel and suspension and associated components.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_weight
Ah, thanks for that info. I have no idea how the in-wheel weight affected the vibrations, but the computer control was meant to achieve high performance in acceleration (they had a nice demo on gravel, quite impressive), braking and handling (redistributing force one four wheel motors), which would compensate for that effect.
And let's not forget that the motors are the brakes, and there is no drive shaft, etc.
There's a small problem with those... unstrung weight is really bad for handling, braking, and ride quality.
I don't know what unstrung weight refers to in cars... but as far as that prototype I linked about, it had a computer controlling the 4 wheel motors, which was really good for handling, braking, accelerating and ride quality.
if that cap explodes, i could see it being very very bad.
If the fuel tank explodes...
nice tin foil hat.
Here's a real world example http://greentransportandenergy.blogspot.com/2009/03/great-importance-of-wheel-motors.html
They had a working prototype, they approached Detroit to get their making-cars expertise... and the project gets quickly scrapped for no apparent reason.
Accountants are boring, soulless drones. "Weird" to them is wearing a different shade of beige than the rest of the accountants.
I don't know. Someone who deals with numbers that much, following labyrinthine trails of debits and credits, can't be entirely sane. They are at least distantly related to mathematicians, who are outright loons.
Well, their insanity lies in their bland conformity.
Is that are joke or are you intentionally dense? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding.
You should be reading this page instead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual_reproduction
Strange, weird and unique peoples work in every sphere of society. You only think coders are special because you happen to hang out with coders and not, say, accountants. If you were hanging out with accountants, you would find accountants a weird and diverse bunch too,
Accountants are boring, soulless drones. "Weird" to them is wearing a different shade of beige than the rest of the accountants.
He was just peppering the code with random lyrics.
Not even random lyrics, RELEVANT lyrics! "You spin me right 'round" comment next to a loop? That's awesome! I wanna work with people like that.
From the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, the premier psychological dictionary of Britain:
sociopathy n. Another name for antisocial personality disorder. sociopath n. A person with sociopathy.
And here's the definiton of antisocial personality disorder:
antisocial personality disorder n. A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, beginning in childhood or early adolescence and continuing into adulthood, with such signs and symptoms as failure to conform to social norms, manifested by repeated unlawful behaviour; deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying or swindling [confidence trickery] for pleasure or personal gain; impulsivity or failure to plan ahead; irritability and aggressiveness involving frequent assaults or fights; reckless disregard for the safety of self or others; consistent irresponsibilty involving failure to hold down jobs or to honour financial obligations; and lack of remorse for the mistreatment of others, as indicated by indifference or rationalization.
Please note that not all of these indicators need necessarily be present for a diagnosis of sociopathy, but my apologies, I don't have a copy of the DSMIV with me right now.
If only you had acces to the internet, and therefore wikipedia...
Diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV-TR)
A) There is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and the rights of others occurring since the age of 15, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:[1]
1. failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest;
2. deceitfulness, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure;
3. impulsivity or failure to plan ahead;
4. irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults;
5. reckless disregard for safety of self or others;
6. consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations;
7. lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
B) The individual is at least 18 years of age.
C) There is evidence of Conduct disorder with onset before age 15.
D) The occurrance of antisocial behavior is not exclusively during the course of schizophrenia or a manic episode.
[3] Deceit and manipulation are considered essential features of the disorder. Therefore, it is essential in making the diagnosis to collect material from sources other than the individual being diagnosed.
[edit] Symptoms
Characteristics of people with antisocial personality disorder may include:[4]
* Persistent lying or stealing
* Superficial charm[5][6]
* Apparent lack of remorse[5] or empathy; inability to care about hurting others
* Inability to keep jobs or stay in school[5]
* Impulsivity and/or recklessness[5]
* Lack of realistic, long-term goals — an inability or persistent failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals
Star trek != hard SF. Star Trek = western in space. (Firefly is too, in case you missed the subtle-as-a-brick hint of the horses in the pilot)
Space Cowboys: They litterally moved cattle from one planet to another, that one time.
They just went hatless, I repeat: Hatless.
What the A-Team taught me was that all it takes to build an impregnable armored vehicle is a few empty 50 gallon drums. We'd have this Afghanistan thing wrapped up tomorrow if they could just ship a bunch of vans, empty 50 gal. drums and a welding torch or two over there.
50 gallon drums... and Mr. T.
...why exactly? How is ST any different from any other sci-fi series like BSG or Firefly? It's not as if those show have any less technobabble or are any less characters-first-technology-second.
Have you watched Firefly? It had a lot less technobabble and a lot more sino-babble. But to answer your question: He's picking on Star Trek because it is THE iconic sci-fi show: People who do not watch sci-fi know it despite not watching it; they don't know Firefly, and they don't know BSG..
"But, yes, when you admit that Star Trek has as much to do with plausibly extrapolated science as The A-Team has to do with a realistic look at the lives of military veterans, life gets easier. "
One of the things that made the biggest impression on me from the last Star Trek movie was that what once was futuristic devices are now things that we are told to turn off before the movie starts: Watching Mama Kirk talk to Papa Kirk over a commu^H^H^H^H^Hcell phone.
The other thing was how stupid the Red Matter McGuffin was: "So Spock is flying around in a ship that can make black holes of any star when...".
Therefore, I think that guy you quoted was 50% correct, and 50% dumb.
Gerald Bull was Canadian engineer who died (bullet in the head) trying to build such a cannon.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
I've been a journalist since 1978, and the most important thing I learned was to go back to the source and check my facts. Most bloggers don't check their facts. But don't feel bad. A lot of New York Times reporters don't check their facts either.
And there you have it. The only difference between a blogger and a journalist is the organization backing up the latter.
Journals, or dailies if you will, are nothing more than web logs. They have no more moral value, inherent, by virtue of being printed on paper rather than displayed on a screen. If a blogger does his research, names his sources, and stays honest, he's a journalist just as much as an employee of a major metropolitan newspaper.
We just need a few bloggers to gain respectability through sustained effort.
So referring to mammatus refers to the way they look. Referring to lenticularis refers to the way they form:
I'm pretty sure they're named lenticular because they're lens-shaped.
mother Teresa who(despite some well publicised, if somewhat ghoulish, charity work) was about as far right as they come.
No no no, I think you got the wording wrong: she fed the poor, she didn't feed off of them.
I hope he bombs Iran and North Korea before invading Pakistan together with India.
Perhaps then the retards at the Nobel Peace Prize committee will
Someone who hopes for three more wars WOULD think the Nobel Peace Prize comitee is a bunch of retards. What with them not wanting anyone to be bombed.