We were on a touring yacht around Antigua. As a result, we only got sporadic radio reports for the first few hours. Bit of a downer in the middle of an otherwise idyllic setting.
Once I found out the contract was "wired" (i.e. internal nepotistic corruption) for Morton Thiokol and they refused to build onsite, and that that was the only reason the damn two-piece body was chosen over a single structure, I was thoroughly pissed off.
On the boring side: I'm pretty sure that scratch tape/disk derives from scratchpads, pads of paper used solely for doodling or intermediate calculations and stuff that you don't want to enter into your (paper) engineering notebook.
Pfft, I like my artisanal coal fired steam turbine generated electricity. The nuclear steam turbine stuff is alright for an everyday fix though. I'll even indulge in that bottom shelf hydro-electric stuff once in a while when money is tight.
The photovoltaic and wind turbine stuff though is rot-gut, nobody should have to suffer with that. The just don't bulbs don't glow right.
I think it's in schlachthof fünf that Vonnegut describes a superduper spaceship drive which gets energy from nowhere, except that it turns out to be grabbing all the energy from stars in a different universe. When the last star is exhausted, all spaceships come to a screeching halt^H^H^H^H nonacceleration.
all of that will be inserted from the network HQ in New York City, from a satellite feed from a dish on a truck outside the stadium. Probably more than one, for redundancy.
No fiber will be used to get the television signal out of that place. It's all done via satellite
Hmmm..., well, not naming any names but our asset inside the Kremlin referred to as "Cardinal" thinks that method might not work either.
THIS got voted funny? One of the 3 jokes banned from rec.humor.funny? One of the jokes that reached every corner of the pre-EternalSeptember Internet, never to be successfully wiped out?
Get offa my lawn you young punk upvoters! (and don't even THINK about posting bell-ringer or mouse-ball jokes)
Yr gonna be much better off using the accepted (at least last century) "gantlet" spelling. That way you have no confusion about the spiked gauntlets being thrown at you as you run the gantlet.
Plus you look way literate. Guaranteed to get you some action.
I have an Emerson "semi-smart" thermostat. It works, and it responds to my internet-based commands. Here's the part that caused some trouble: It has a nice big "Off" button on the front panel. One day, a relative who was house-sitting (in the winter) figured that "off" meant "don't heat to the setpoint." -- which is true in a bad way. Luckily I checked the status remotely and turned the thermostat back "On," with a proper low-temp setpoint. This would never happen with a single-purpose mechanical thermostat. Then again, maybe I'm deep into my GetOffaMyLawn years and all sorts of climate-control devices have an "off" state that should be used with care.
That depends a lot on whether you believe in following both international and US law. Committing what is in fact assassinations on foreign soil is not what I'd call worthy of a medal. These drone ops, and their commanding officers, should all be court-martialed.
As for their counterparts over at CIA, they should be shipped to Daesh headquarters to be utilized as that bunch of crazies see fit.
This is off the main topic, but seeing as the Kobo Aura I bought does not have any way to zoom on images, I'd like to consider an alternative product. The Kobo lets me change font size very easily, but that doesn't affect the pictures. (in either pdf or epub documents)
Let's see... First electric train (Lionel) at age 6; played with trains almost daily for years. First Estes rocket at age 13 (I think); with Erector sets in between (temporally). I enjoyed the pace and care required to build balsa& tissue paper model aircraft -- which I then flew with the usual semidestructive results.
My latest (gift from child this Xmas) is the ThinkGeek solar-powered marble kinetic sculpture kit. I hope I never lose the enjoyment of building stuff.
When you see that this guy is in Philosophy, not Math or Physics or Engineering, his statement suddenly becomes clear. He's blathering as though Alan Sokal and Social Text never happened.
And you can be sure, any bank mail you're getting is fake.
dead wrong.
Valid emails I receive, all with a "do not respond to this address" warning: 1) A payment posted 2) account access from a new IP address (e.g. I logged in from a cafe) 3) Change to profile settings happened
Obviously if a "bank email" asks you to respond with an email containing your password or your cat's name, it's fake. But there are real messages all the time.
Personally, [TRIGGER WARNING! Socialist propaganda!!!!] I see no reason to allow for-profit drug companies to exist. Their goals are generally orthogonal to the needs of their customer base. A nice big expansion of NIH (and its budget) would let all drug research and production be based on need, not profit margin. Orphan diseases, no longer an unprofitable micromarket, could be addressed. And so on.
Let's try a somewhat-analogous scenario as a thought exercise:
I find out that on my bank's website, I can easily see my neighbor's bank account by doing some obvious URL manipulation. I immediately tell the bank that I'm worried about the security of my own account because I know that I could go into anyone else's.The bank locks me, and only me, from accessing any bank accounts, including my own. That response makes no sense. The only proper response would be to revoke ALL access to the bank's website until such time as the security hole can be confirmed fixed. Otherwise, the implied message is that you should NEVER tell the bank that they have a potential problem.
That may be the only proper response, but history shows pretty definitively that the actual response will be to do nothing other than lock you out of everything. People in power are vain and insecure. They deal with bug reports by killing the messenger. every. time.
If this shows up on my cable box, it'll be the first channel I ever bothered to block (aka Parental or whatever). First, tho' I'll call Xfrackity and threaten to terminate all services if they don't kill the channel entirely.
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We were on a touring yacht around Antigua. As a result, we only got sporadic radio reports for the first few hours. Bit of a downer in the middle of an otherwise idyllic setting.
Once I found out the contract was "wired" (i.e. internal nepotistic corruption) for Morton Thiokol and they refused to build onsite, and that that was the only reason the damn two-piece body was chosen over a single structure, I was thoroughly pissed off.
On the boring side: I'm pretty sure that scratch tape/disk derives from scratchpads, pads of paper used solely for doodling or intermediate calculations and stuff that you don't want to enter into your (paper) engineering notebook.
Pfft, I like my artisanal coal fired steam turbine generated electricity. The nuclear steam turbine stuff is alright for an everyday fix though. I'll even indulge in that bottom shelf hydro-electric stuff once in a while when money is tight.
The photovoltaic and wind turbine stuff though is rot-gut, nobody should have to suffer with that. The just don't bulbs don't glow right.
It's not the source of your electrons, it's the cable. Have you tried this ethernet connection or these these audio cables
I think it's in schlachthof fünf that Vonnegut describes a superduper spaceship drive which gets energy from nowhere, except that it turns out to be grabbing all the energy from stars in a different universe. When the last star is exhausted, all spaceships come to a screeching halt^H^H^H^H nonacceleration.
You could get him that famous Barbie doll that says "Math is hard!"
And here I thought you were going to finish that with "...until someone shoots his eye out with the banana"
>> My venison jerky is to die for.
Well it sure is so far as the deer is concerned.
all of that will be inserted from the network HQ in New York City, from a satellite feed from a dish on a truck outside the stadium. Probably more than one, for redundancy.
No fiber will be used to get the television signal out of that place. It's all done via satellite
Hmmm..., well, not naming any names but our asset inside the Kremlin referred to as "Cardinal" thinks that method might not work either.
THIS got voted funny? One of the 3 jokes banned from rec.humor.funny? One of the jokes that reached every corner of the pre-EternalSeptember Internet, never to be successfully wiped out?
Get offa my lawn you young punk upvoters!
(and don't even THINK about posting bell-ringer or mouse-ball jokes)
Yr gonna be much better off using the accepted (at least last century) "gantlet" spelling. That way you have no confusion about the spiked gauntlets being thrown at you as you run the gantlet.
Plus you look way literate. Guaranteed to get you some action.
I have an Emerson "semi-smart" thermostat. It works, and it responds to my internet-based commands. Here's the part that caused some trouble: It has a nice big "Off" button on the front panel. One day, a relative who was house-sitting (in the winter) figured that "off" meant "don't heat to the setpoint." -- which is true in a bad way. Luckily I checked the status remotely and turned the thermostat back "On," with a proper low-temp setpoint.
This would never happen with a single-purpose mechanical thermostat. Then again, maybe I'm deep into my GetOffaMyLawn years and all sorts of climate-control devices have an "off" state that should be used with care.
That depends a lot on whether you believe in following both international and US law. Committing what is in fact assassinations on foreign soil is not what I'd call worthy of a medal. These drone ops, and their commanding officers, should all be court-martialed.
As for their counterparts over at CIA, they should be shipped to Daesh headquarters to be utilized as that bunch of crazies see fit.
No, it's called Duck Tape because the original manufacturer used a particular grade of sailcloth (canvas) referred to as Duck Cloth.
You could look it up.
a move from Pennsylvania to New Jersey is unlikely to impact an American's life in any meaningful way
Aside from being vilified for rooting for the wrong sports teams, you mean.
(Meanwhile, moving within PA from Phila to Pittsburgh is just about as discordant as moving from Mexico to Greenland)
This is off the main topic, but seeing as the Kobo Aura I bought does not have any way to zoom on images, I'd like to consider an alternative product.
The Kobo lets me change font size very easily, but that doesn't affect the pictures. (in either pdf or epub documents)
Completely unable to post from Chrome because slashdot keeps logging me out when I hit "Submit" and won't let me post as AC.
I just love it when upgrades break things.
OTOH, if this post from FF fails, it's certainly slashdot's fault
Let's see...
First electric train (Lionel) at age 6; played with trains almost daily for years. First Estes rocket at age 13 (I think); with Erector sets in between (temporally). I enjoyed the pace and care required to build balsa& tissue paper model aircraft -- which I then flew with the usual semidestructive results.
My latest (gift from child this Xmas) is the ThinkGeek solar-powered marble kinetic sculpture kit. I hope I never lose the enjoyment of building stuff.
If a couple countries retaliated (retail-ieated?) by banning all Disney products from entering their land, this sort of shit would stop immediately.
When you see that this guy is in Philosophy, not Math or Physics or Engineering, his statement suddenly becomes clear. He's blathering as though Alan Sokal and Social Text never happened.
dunno 'bout that... Win 3.1 machines are unlikely to have the toolset necessary for modern viruses to run. Security through obsolescence!
(yes I'm being sarcastic)
And you can be sure, any bank mail you're getting is fake.
dead wrong.
Valid emails I receive, all with a "do not respond to this address" warning:
1) A payment posted
2) account access from a new IP address (e.g. I logged in from a cafe)
3) Change to profile settings happened
Obviously if a "bank email" asks you to respond with an email containing your password or your cat's name, it's fake. But there are real messages all the time.
Personally, [TRIGGER WARNING! Socialist propaganda!!!!]
I see no reason to allow for-profit drug companies to exist. Their goals are generally orthogonal to the needs of their customer base. A nice big expansion of NIH (and its budget) would let all drug research and production be based on need, not profit margin. Orphan diseases, no longer an unprofitable micromarket, could be addressed. And so on.
Let's try a somewhat-analogous scenario as a thought exercise:
I find out that on my bank's website, I can easily see my neighbor's bank account by doing some obvious URL manipulation.
I immediately tell the bank that I'm worried about the security of my own account because I know that I could go into anyone else's.The bank locks me, and only me, from accessing any bank accounts, including my own.
That response makes no sense. The only proper response would be to revoke ALL access to the bank's website until such time as the security hole can be confirmed fixed. Otherwise, the implied message is that you should NEVER tell the bank that they have a potential problem.
That may be the only proper response, but history shows pretty definitively that the actual response will be to do nothing other than lock you out of everything. People in power are vain and insecure. They deal with bug reports by killing the messenger. every. time.
If this shows up on my cable box, it'll be the first channel I ever bothered to block (aka Parental or whatever). First, tho' I'll call Xfrackity and threaten to terminate all services if they don't kill the channel entirely.
Won't help, but it'll make me feel better.
What if it's impossible for life to form in a binary star system?
Dunno for sure about binary stars, but it's pretty clear that a ternary star system will have serious problems.