This. Attributes of my den: Comfortable seat. No loudmouths. Feet don't stick to the floor. Pause button. Clean bathroom. Fast-forward button for the trailers. Movie starts whenever I damn well please. Food at grocery store prices. Liquor. If the movie turns out to be crap, I can abandon it without spoiling my wife's enjoyment. Attributes of a theater: Big screen.
OK, so I'm chugging along at 5500 feet in a Cessna. It has a transponder, but I'm operating VFR which means I'm not on an ATC clearance. How does ATC know my intended flight path intersects the cable, which may be several miles upwind of the balloon at my altitude??
Not so much. It would have been closed long ago, but the agent in charge asked permission to keep it open on a no-government-resources basis. He published all the non-secret information he had and invited the public to look for clues, got lots of responses, and evaluated the data on his own time.
Only one thing about the whole recent train of events is new:
Smartphones. They've either ripped our heads out of the sand, or overturned a rock, whichever metaphor you prefer. Now what police have long been accused of, and what could reasonably be viewed skeptically, is out in the open.
Should the shooter have done it? No, but that's immaterial. Was it wrong? Yes, but that's immaterial. Should he have been engaged with lethal force? Yes, but that's immaterial.
Brutalize a population long enough, and they'll strike out. Forget right and wrong: they WILL, and we can't talk it away or threaten it away. If you don't remove the stimulus, it will just keep happening. And thanks to the smartphone, we now know whether the stimulus is still around or not.
Well, I teach engineering in Colorado, some of my students skateboard to class, and nobody seems to care. But nobody cares if they toke either, so maybe it's a regional thing.
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This. Attributes of my den:
Comfortable seat.
No loudmouths.
Feet don't stick to the floor.
Pause button.
Clean bathroom.
Fast-forward button for the trailers.
Movie starts whenever I damn well please.
Food at grocery store prices.
Liquor.
If the movie turns out to be crap, I can abandon it without spoiling my wife's enjoyment.
Attributes of a theater:
Big screen.
That would involve dead people filing for income tax refunds...;-)
When a hydraulic actuator breaks your leg, it's entirely fair to say your life was in danger.
but he's not owned by the Saudi's Or pretty much anyone
Haven't seen his tax returns, have we...
"Seaplane" is ambiguous. At least as far as the FAA is concerned, any airplane that can operate on water is a seaplane.
Nope. Coral Gables High, Miami, 1956.
Are they not teaching basic Earth Science in high school anymore?
Well, in my high school they taught it from the Book of Genesis...
OK, so I'm chugging along at 5500 feet in a Cessna. It has a transponder, but I'm operating VFR which means I'm not on an ATC clearance. How does ATC know my intended flight path intersects the cable, which may be several miles upwind of the balloon at my altitude??
Okay. https://i.redditmedia.com/pvdF...
Actually I was just playing grammar Nazi. "You're propaganda"?
You're ignorant propaganda
Pretty well speaks for itself...
and see the employees enjoy their lunch break
They'll dance if you throw them a peanut.
(*) This is a 2nd hand rumor from someone you don't know on the internet, take it with a grain of salt.
Pass the salt. Hold the rumor, please.
...the reddit thread is running a higher signal-to-noise ratio than this one.
It is indeed there.
Check the datum used; WGS84 and NAD27 can differ by that much.
There are plenty of drug lords and tinpot dictators who would get a chuckle out of that remark...
Not so much. It would have been closed long ago, but the agent in charge asked permission to keep it open on a no-government-resources basis. He published all the non-secret information he had and invited the public to look for clues, got lots of responses, and evaluated the data on his own time.
The Internet. Where science goes to die.
OK, now we're getting somewhere. The Sterling and Castile incidents: brutality or not? The smartphones: game-changers or not?
I'm not going to measure dicks with you, Cone. Why don't you just tell us what actions you DO support?
Yes they do: but the white lives have police protection.
Okay then...guess we don't have to change anything. Carry on.
Only one thing about the whole recent train of events is new:
Smartphones. They've either ripped our heads out of the sand, or overturned a rock, whichever metaphor you prefer. Now what police have long been accused of, and what could reasonably be viewed skeptically, is out in the open.
Should the shooter have done it? No, but that's immaterial.
Was it wrong? Yes, but that's immaterial.
Should he have been engaged with lethal force? Yes, but that's immaterial.
Brutalize a population long enough, and they'll strike out. Forget right and wrong: they WILL, and we can't talk it away or threaten it away. If you don't remove the stimulus, it will just keep happening. And thanks to the smartphone, we now know whether the stimulus is still around or not.
Well, I teach engineering in Colorado, some of my students skateboard to class, and nobody seems to care. But nobody cares if they toke either, so maybe it's a regional thing.