That's the problem, ain't it? So instead we whine and blog and demonstrate and shake our fists; then we cross our fingers and vote for the Obamas and then rinse and repeat when things don't work out as planned. All the while those moneychangers are becoming more entrenched in the temple....
... but only for a while until the money-changers sneak back into the temple. That's why you have to have them periodically, like defragging and virus-scanning your hard drive. We seem to have fallen behind on the schedule... we haven't had a decent game-changing revolution in a while, have we? Now we have a bunch of people muttering "let them eat cake" again. Does anyone still know how to make guillotines? We'll need quite a few this time.
Shocking people who use their touchscreen in the car might be a good feature, if that means they only mess with it when they really must and spend more time devoted to actual driving!
This reminds me of that bizarre "Transformer blob" video that was reported here some time ago. I dunno if I want my touchscreens morphing on me when I'm not looking!
That was me, but Thunderbird isn't behaving quite the same way with/. RSS feeds these days and it doesn't recognize logins, so comments made inside the RSS feed wind up being anonymous. It used to be that hitting Reply would spawn the browser, but not so any more; I don't know whether it's Thunderbird or Slashdot to blame for the change. It's not as practical as before, but maybe that's a good thing if it causes me to keep my trap shut more often?
Ummm... duh? The marketing for these vehicles was never targeted at physics professors, was it? The people behind it targeted the market that they knew would be vulnerable to the pitch: people who don't "know science" and understand the constraints of the physical world.
I had an unscientific (and religion-spewing) friend get all excited when he heard about these, and tried to infect me with his excitement. I firmly declined. I recognized what he was too delusional to see, that there was nothing at all sustainable about it, that it was merely shifting the unsustainability to make it less obvious to the consumer.
While I think the reaction is over-the-top (and giving Apple techs that degree of personal control dangerous), nicotine tar does have a destructive impact on computer components, and it is very hard to non-destructively remove. Somewhere around here I suspect I still have photos I took 25 years ago of an IBM-PC-XT-class system that had been used by a chain-smoker: the interior was heavily coated with nicotine tar, damaging a number of components and making it virtually impossible to remove to prevent further future damage, especially when there was no expectation that the exposure would stop. The entire interior had a sticky yellow tinge. I wound up showing the interior to the customer and factually pointed out that the same compound was also coating his lungs, and he seemed rather persuaded by that visual demonstration.
There was a lesson here for these two puffers to learn, but they chose to ignore the lesson and transfer the blame for the consequences of their poor choices to others. They should be giving the mirror a smackdown, not Steve Jobs.
Who woulda guessed that nukes come with the same Use-By date as Hostess pastries? Now we know that, also just like those Hostess Twinkies, our nukes are good for decades after those dates. That's awesome news for the Apocalypse survivors, who will have dessert AND won't have to bother making their own M.A.D. devices from scratch.
"Good news, everyone! We found nukes from Fry's time and they're as fresh and tasty as the day they were put in the wrappers!"
It's kinda hard for Beck to have fun with this controversy when Microsoft jumps the gun and denies it first, huh? Well, I'm still wondering why Ballmer refuses to deny he raped and threw chairs at that girl in 1990....
All this talk about 13th Base makes me jealous, 'cause I've never even got to 2nd Base yet. I'll have to die first and go to heaven before I'll get to 13th Base with a chick.
Even if the building still topples on them? I dunno. This company needs to demonstrate its effectiveness in less abstract scenarios than the one pictured in that video; it needs to show that the solution isn't just trading one form of catastrophe for another. It needs to demonstrate it with real car bombs against real buildings, not once but repeatedly in several variations. Otherwise all it has is good marketing but bad science.
Watch that video again: the entire block wall ROCKS in reaction to the force of the impact. Now picture that rocking block wall with a load of many thousands of pounds sitting on it, pushing down from above; do you see why I'm skeptical? A vertical load placed on a wall that will be subjected to that abuse seems like a recipe for failure.
... you don't have to punch through a wall to otherwise destroy it. Even if this stuff stops a wrecking ball from breaking through a brick wall, can you imagine what kind of a shattered mess it will be in after force of the impact? It will still have be rebuilt from the ground up. The video in TFA demonstrates that: if that block wall had been a load-bearing wall, whatever big weight it was supporting would probably still come crashing down.
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Don't fret, Citizen! Consume and be happy.
That's the problem, ain't it? So instead we whine and blog and demonstrate and shake our fists; then we cross our fingers and vote for the Obamas and then rinse and repeat when things don't work out as planned. All the while those moneychangers are becoming more entrenched in the temple....
... but only for a while until the money-changers sneak back into the temple. That's why you have to have them periodically, like defragging and virus-scanning your hard drive. We seem to have fallen behind on the schedule... we haven't had a decent game-changing revolution in a while, have we? Now we have a bunch of people muttering "let them eat cake" again. Does anyone still know how to make guillotines? We'll need quite a few this time.
Yeah, but what about Bob Saget?
Personal anecdote, that is?
Did this happen in 1990, by any chance?
Shocking people who use their touchscreen in the car might be a good feature, if that means they only mess with it when they really must and spend more time devoted to actual driving!
Yeah, but you seem to be a quick learner.
This reminds me of that bizarre "Transformer blob" video that was reported here some time ago. I dunno if I want my touchscreens morphing on me when I'm not looking!
I take it that (a) you know absolutely nothing about RSS or (b) your tongue is planted firmly in your OTHER cheek where we can't see it?
That was me, but Thunderbird isn't behaving quite the same way with /. RSS feeds these days and it doesn't recognize logins, so comments made inside the RSS feed wind up being anonymous. It used to be that hitting Reply would spawn the browser, but not so any more; I don't know whether it's Thunderbird or Slashdot to blame for the change. It's not as practical as before, but maybe that's a good thing if it causes me to keep my trap shut more often?
Already done. It may not matter, though... delusion is a powerful thing, much more powerful than mere science.
Ummm... duh? The marketing for these vehicles was never targeted at physics professors, was it? The people behind it targeted the market that they knew would be vulnerable to the pitch: people who don't "know science" and understand the constraints of the physical world.
I had an unscientific (and religion-spewing) friend get all excited when he heard about these, and tried to infect me with his excitement. I firmly declined. I recognized what he was too delusional to see, that there was nothing at all sustainable about it, that it was merely shifting the unsustainability to make it less obvious to the consumer.
While I think the reaction is over-the-top (and giving Apple techs that degree of personal control dangerous), nicotine tar does have a destructive impact on computer components, and it is very hard to non-destructively remove. Somewhere around here I suspect I still have photos I took 25 years ago of an IBM-PC-XT-class system that had been used by a chain-smoker: the interior was heavily coated with nicotine tar, damaging a number of components and making it virtually impossible to remove to prevent further future damage, especially when there was no expectation that the exposure would stop. The entire interior had a sticky yellow tinge. I wound up showing the interior to the customer and factually pointed out that the same compound was also coating his lungs, and he seemed rather persuaded by that visual demonstration.
There was a lesson here for these two puffers to learn, but they chose to ignore the lesson and transfer the blame for the consequences of their poor choices to others. They should be giving the mirror a smackdown, not Steve Jobs.
Who woulda guessed that nukes come with the same Use-By date as Hostess pastries? Now we know that, also just like those Hostess Twinkies, our nukes are good for decades after those dates. That's awesome news for the Apocalypse survivors, who will have dessert AND won't have to bother making their own M.A.D. devices from scratch.
"Good news, everyone! We found nukes from Fry's time and they're as fresh and tasty as the day they were put in the wrappers!"
There ya go! Beck would be proud.
It's kinda hard for Beck to have fun with this controversy when Microsoft jumps the gun and denies it first, huh? Well, I'm still wondering why Ballmer refuses to deny he raped and threw chairs at that girl in 1990....
All this talk about 13th Base makes me jealous, 'cause I've never even got to 2nd Base yet. I'll have to die first and go to heaven before I'll get to 13th Base with a chick.
Are you gonna register that sucker? 'Cause if not I'm gonna fork it off your plate and git 'er done.
Even if the building still topples on them? I dunno. This company needs to demonstrate its effectiveness in less abstract scenarios than the one pictured in that video; it needs to show that the solution isn't just trading one form of catastrophe for another. It needs to demonstrate it with real car bombs against real buildings, not once but repeatedly in several variations. Otherwise all it has is good marketing but bad science.
Watch that video again: the entire block wall ROCKS in reaction to the force of the impact. Now picture that rocking block wall with a load of many thousands of pounds sitting on it, pushing down from above; do you see why I'm skeptical? A vertical load placed on a wall that will be subjected to that abuse seems like a recipe for failure.
... you don't have to punch through a wall to otherwise destroy it. Even if this stuff stops a wrecking ball from breaking through a brick wall, can you imagine what kind of a shattered mess it will be in after force of the impact? It will still have be rebuilt from the ground up. The video in TFA demonstrates that: if that block wall had been a load-bearing wall, whatever big weight it was supporting would probably still come crashing down.
I think I'll start with you. Can you guess why?
Actually, the last I'd heard it was the U.K. that was the biggest investor here, so we'd be going to war with them AGAIN.
Whoa... identity theft in 1775? Quiet, before you start giving the natives some more litigious ideas!