Perhaps if they made it a part of their daily job to toss all the dead birds in the back of their pickup and move them to a safer place for the preditorial birds to eat
Now, in the core at my plant, we have 193 fuel assemblies, each of which contains a little more than half a ton of uranium. Skipping over some details, we can basically use this hundred tons of fuel to generate 1.2 GW for 4.5 years.
I get 1.2GW just by hooking a big wire from the clocktower up to my car and waiting for it to get struck by lightning... That and through burning banana skins, which I don't claim to understand the science behind.
The crater is about 1Km across. Beagle2 is the size of a dinner plate.
Actually, it's a bit bigger than that... From the Beagle 2 FAQ - "Once Beagle 2 disposes of its outer shell and heat shields and only the lander remains, it is about 660mm (26 inches) - the size of an average bicycle wheel - in diameter and 119mm (5 inches) deep at the centre."
How big a crater could Beagle 2 have made if it impacted at full-speed (i.e. if all the stuff it was due to do to slow itself down had failed)? My guess is "pretty big", maybe it couldn't make a 1km crater, but it wouldn't really surprise me if it had.
When you misplace your car keys, do you just buy a new car?
Probably not, and there's no reason why they shouldn't continue the search for Beagle 2, Mars Express hasn't even begun trying to talk to it yet (and that's a lot more suited to the task than Odyssey, or the Earth based observatories that were always a long-shot), and B2 automatically cycles through a few more modes allowing it to accept blind commands before they will write this one off.
The mission hasn't gone as planned to date, but the problems they're experiencing are ones they prepared for... To say their are "failsafes" against this would be wrong, but they still have a chance. Giving up before Mars Express even begins its search would be incredibly wasteful.
I decided that I'm not going to let my family ridicule me any further. On a moments whim I grabbed the knife and frustratedly stabbed the small box twice.
The high-capacity so-dimm inside didn't appreciate it.
No offense intended, but that'll teach you not to be quite so insane in future.
6 pairs of black socks
1 can of mixed nuts (i hate most nuts)
A bottle of leather conditioner (presumably for my car)
A pair of cheap $20 headphones (left side doesn't work)
15 losing $1-2 lottery tickets
$10 in gift certificates to Krispy Kreme (love them, but the closest one is an HOUR away. All Dunkin' Donuts around here.)
Speaker stands for the surround sound system I don't have.
"Going postal on your stingy, asshole family --- priceless"
--You know... I know how much of a ripoff hard-drives are (due to marketing as 1024=1000, as you said) but I bought a 160gb SATA drive last week, and it works out to 131gb... Can anyone explain to me how the fuck that's legal, even with the "1024=1000" rule/cheat?
Yes, the "Spell fizzling/Alligator" sound effect from Ultima Online.
See about 20 different episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and countless other TV shows and films for further details.
(not saying the OWO guys actually made the sound, but it's the one stock sound effect I've noticed being recycled more than any other).
Liar. Liar. Liar. I am going to make this real clear. I *never* buy certian magazines or music products. However, if I read an article in a magazine at my friends house the publisher is not being ripped off. Likewise for music, or a DVD.
In those cases I got the benefit but paid nothing. Zero. Zilch.
Now, what *exactly* is the difference if that MP3 was e-mailed to me? Nothing. None. I still didnt buy it (I wasnt going to, anyways), and they still didnt sell it.
Your analogy is flawed, it would be different if you were going round to your friend's house, taking copies of his CD's and handing them out in the street, or making countless photocopies of that magazine article and giving them to anyone who wanted a copy.
There is a big difference between going around to your friend's house and reading a brand new magazine and just wandering into a shop, taking said magazine off the shelf and to a free photocopier and making yourself a copy.
Can you think of any shops that would let you do that?
I'm not seeing anything in here to suggest that, as of the current state of the laws, unwanted advertisements are anything BUT Free Speech until you order them to stop.
I've had my personal email address for 8 years, I used it briefly on usenet when I got it, and I had it on my site for a while. Other than that I don't use it anywhere except in conversation with friends, some of whom have been infected with viruses propogating my email address further (I'm sure).
I get over 6,000 emails a month, of those, 2 are legitimate, and they're both billing notifications, one for my ISP, one for my webhost.
Free speech is great for you I'm sure, but a) it's not Americanet, it's the Internet, and b) I couldn't give a flying fuck if these spammers had no rights whatsoever, or if they all died horribly for that matter, You cannot defend something as despicable and costly as spam in a worldwide forum by hiding behind the US constitution.
Well said, I have probably 10 databases here ranging from a few hundred k to about 5gb with most falling at the upper end of that scale, I'm not about to go installing spamware posted on slashdot to make the dinky ones run 3000x faster and leave the ones with hundreds of thousands of records running at less than half the speed.
personally I could really care which card has better DX9 support then the other.
Sorry to single you out but this is like my biggest pet-peeve ever... You do realise how illogical it is to say you "could care less" about something, right?
As mistaken crap goes, "I could care less about blah" is right up there with "stfu you looser!"
ATI has never been all that innovative. They've gone for "raw power" rather than finesse, and I think Nvidia's strategy is a little bit farther-thinking.
You're right, to hell with buying the most powerful kit avaliable, from now on I'll just buy from whoever has the best long-term business strategy.
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Especially if it's covered in chickenwire
Or he could put up chickenwire all around it.
Or just the living room window, actually.
How big a crater could Beagle 2 have made if it impacted at full-speed (i.e. if all the stuff it was due to do to slow itself down had failed)? My guess is "pretty big", maybe it couldn't make a 1km crater, but it wouldn't really surprise me if it had.
When you misplace your car keys, do you just buy a new car?
Probably not, and there's no reason why they shouldn't continue the search for Beagle 2, Mars Express hasn't even begun trying to talk to it yet (and that's a lot more suited to the task than Odyssey, or the Earth based observatories that were always a long-shot), and B2 automatically cycles through a few more modes allowing it to accept blind commands before they will write this one off.
The mission hasn't gone as planned to date, but the problems they're experiencing are ones they prepared for... To say their are "failsafes" against this would be wrong, but they still have a chance. Giving up before Mars Express even begins its search would be incredibly wasteful.
Pulling alcoholics?
What's more terrifying than your mom not understanding your choice of OS, is the fact you relay discussions in pop3.
Please move to Windows for your own sake, you need to be dumbed down a bit.
"Going postal on your stingy, asshole family --- priceless"
--You know... I know how much of a ripoff hard-drives are (due to marketing as 1024=1000, as you said) but I bought a 160gb SATA drive last week, and it works out to 131gb... Can anyone explain to me how the fuck that's legal, even with the "1024=1000" rule/cheat?
Make that "duo of spacecraft" - Nozomi didn't make it, it ran out of juice trying to get back on course and has been abandoned.
Yes, the "Spell fizzling/Alligator" sound effect from Ultima Online. See about 20 different episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and countless other TV shows and films for further details. (not saying the OWO guys actually made the sound, but it's the one stock sound effect I've noticed being recycled more than any other).
There is a big difference between going around to your friend's house and reading a brand new magazine and just wandering into a shop, taking said magazine off the shelf and to a free photocopier and making yourself a copy.
Can you think of any shops that would let you do that?
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
No, wait...
I get over 6,000 emails a month, of those, 2 are legitimate, and they're both billing notifications, one for my ISP, one for my webhost.
Free speech is great for you I'm sure, but a) it's not Americanet, it's the Internet, and b) I couldn't give a flying fuck if these spammers had no rights whatsoever, or if they all died horribly for that matter, You cannot defend something as despicable and costly as spam in a worldwide forum by hiding behind the US constitution.
Well said, I have probably 10 databases here ranging from a few hundred k to about 5gb with most falling at the upper end of that scale, I'm not about to go installing spamware posted on slashdot to make the dinky ones run 3000x faster and leave the ones with hundreds of thousands of records running at less than half the speed.
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If grandma doesn't open dubious .pifs in emails entitled "BIGGER COCK NOW!" she may be ok.
Mods, pay attention!
As mistaken crap goes, "I could care less about blah" is right up there with "stfu you looser!"