What? Who would shoot down a spacecraft? Especially one that they'd see coming for months or even years? It's not like people would forget that they launched and then lost contact with it.
Excellent speculation. Now find the name of the pilot who successfully landed the almost identical Southwest flight 3472 after engine failure and fuselage rupture. Essentially the same incident, with the exception of pure luck that no one was hit by the shrapnel.
Of course you could complain about it for a different reason here; the tone could be taken as being rather condescending, as in "she's female, yet she managed not to panic like a girl, how brave!" I don't think that's how it was meant, but it could be taken that way.
I did take it that way. There was a very similar incident in August 2016 (flight 3472)... same plane type, same failure, ruptured fuselage with depressurization, emergency landing. No fatality, but that was just luck. I don't recall seeing the pilot profiled in the news, nor any praise for his or her bravery or skill except from some passenger quotes. The coverage, in my opinion, is very much "oooo, a girl!". Because apparently a well-trained female doing her fucking job competently is still "news". Even the Wikipedia pages show this bias, with the flight 1380 page declaring the name of the pilot twice and the flight 3472 page not mentioning the pilot at all.
58 injuries per year on average. Small chance, but probably worth keeping your lap belt on loosely so you don't whack your head against the ceiling. I was on one flight where it felt like I was on a roller coaster - but fortunately a previous flight had warned our pilot and they went around checking to make sure we were buckled up and the pilot reduced speed.
Yeah, I (partially) take it back - actually they were fine with Linux, but when a full version of Windows was crammed on them the OS used all the resources and they were pigs. The Linux netbooks had a very short life, only shipping until MS caught on and started selling a cheap version of Windows.
More like something happens to your radio or antenna, but your systems are still otherwise OK. So you can get back to earth from some point in space, but mission control can't make course corrections and such. Fortunately, you have this space GPS doobly-doo that can let your computer guide itself.
No, they'll call it "take the envelope challenge!" and it will be delivered by a 20-something with the enthusiasm of a crack addict finding a 50 dollar bill and overdubbed with pulsing royalty-free music.
I mean, we're digging pretty deep into a joke now - but Googling around it sounds like they are "views" and not "unique views". They take some measures to fight fraud, but a single person watching a video multiple times ostensibly counts as multiple views.
and cost about $600 instead of the full price of a Laptop
That is more than 3x the cost of the eventual OLPC. That's 3x fewer kids with laptops.
divided between Ultrabooks or Macbook Airs;
The higher-end ones you were referring to, yes. But the sub-$300 things people were calling "netbooks" are probably closest to Chromebooks today. An Air is pretty darned high-end. Netbooks mostly ran on an Atom and were pretty disappointing even by the standards of the day.
Indeed it is. Which is why I say millions of millennials. The billion views? That's because they need to watch it several times, then return to the page dozens of times to reply to comments.
Alternate perspective - my inlaws we're hungry growing up. They were raised by widows in the 3rd world. They did their homework by candlelight. Education is what allowed them to pull themselves (and eventually their parents) out of poverty. I'm not saying that clean water and food aren't important, but it's certainly possible to work on education without negatively impacting efforts to improve access to food and water. And education can be used to improve one's income, which can then be used to buy food and water - rather than rely on charity.
Most Snake People were born before the internet was a thing, and have sent plenty of personal letters growing up. And learned cursive in 3rd grade like everyone else. You're thinking of The Zolom's Children.
I was just trying to trivialize the inconvenience - don't take the lighthearted yank at the millennials too seriously.
"Someone else's cheaper device" in 2006 would not have been Android, which of course did not exist. It probably would have been a cheap feature phone or Palm knockoff. Shortly after it was announced, there was a new category of cheap laptop referred to as a "netbook" - and they were very hot for a while... but even those never really broke the $100 price point.
This misses the whole point that this system failed on the due date for a mandatory payment.
While I agree that is a hilarious example of a government IT fail, there are other ways to pay. If you waited until the last minute to file and your only consequence is that you need to run an extra errand I'd say you're still doing pretty well. You can always send it in the next day and suffer the practically non-existent penalty. Hell, my state tax is going in a day late because I forgot to have my wife sign it and she won't be home in time. If they come at me for the fine it will be $0.02.
Um, there are 83 million millennials. In theory, they should all be paying taxes. Even if only 2% of them waited until the last minute to file, we're in the millions.
I was making a cheap lighthearted millennial joke, don't read too much into it. Of course you can fill out a check without cursive - but back when schools taught such things, they taught us to fill checks out in cursive because it was harder to alter. The intent of my post was a sarcastic response to the parent, who seemed to think that the alternative ways to pay the IRS were onerous enough to warrant extending the deadline. Anyone born prior to 1990 would probably just whip out their checkbook and address an envelope without thinking too much of it. They might even have a stamp in a drawer somewhere.
It's typically used to fill out a check because it is hard to alter. It's also used for your signature, unless you are a millenial in which case your hand would cramp up writing that many letters.;p
Millions of millennials will need to learn cursive writing so that they can fill out a check. The YouTube video for how to address and stamp an envelope will be the first in 2018 with a billion views.
They did not do it like every other business, unless you mean the way it was done in the 50s. Businesses have been required to fund pensions for decades now, and you'll notice that once promises became liabilities the pensions all went away in the private sector. Slowly government is accepting the standards recommended by accounting regulatory bodies and counting pensions as the liabilities they are.
I'd love to know what your accounting credentials are, if I'm so ignorant. I may be accounting-retarded, but it sounds like you haven't read anything about it in 30 years.
I'll go further - the Washington Post is still a damn fine news source... it's just that they have decided to set aside worries about bias and so you need to go elsewhere for further reading. It's now just "in the mix" as opposed to the kind of thing you could read cover-to-cover and consider yourself well-informed. Maybe it's just false nostalgia on my part...
The problem isn't that the media is getting biased, the problem is that half of the US political establishment has gone so far off the deep end that you can't reach them without an oil rig.
It's not an either/or. Both things have happened. Republicans regularly make indefensible statements, but just read the headlines on CNN any given day (not today, love of war coverage usurps their hatred of Trump) - full of adjectives and they freely mix their news and opinion headlines.
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What? Who would shoot down a spacecraft? Especially one that they'd see coming for months or even years? It's not like people would forget that they launched and then lost contact with it.
Excellent speculation. Now find the name of the pilot who successfully landed the almost identical Southwest flight 3472 after engine failure and fuselage rupture. Essentially the same incident, with the exception of pure luck that no one was hit by the shrapnel.
Of course you could complain about it for a different reason here; the tone could be taken as being rather condescending, as in "she's female, yet she managed not to panic like a girl, how brave!" I don't think that's how it was meant, but it could be taken that way.
I did take it that way. There was a very similar incident in August 2016 (flight 3472)... same plane type, same failure, ruptured fuselage with depressurization, emergency landing. No fatality, but that was just luck. I don't recall seeing the pilot profiled in the news, nor any praise for his or her bravery or skill except from some passenger quotes. The coverage, in my opinion, is very much "oooo, a girl!". Because apparently a well-trained female doing her fucking job competently is still "news". Even the Wikipedia pages show this bias, with the flight 1380 page declaring the name of the pilot twice and the flight 3472 page not mentioning the pilot at all.
58 injuries per year on average. Small chance, but probably worth keeping your lap belt on loosely so you don't whack your head against the ceiling. I was on one flight where it felt like I was on a roller coaster - but fortunately a previous flight had warned our pilot and they went around checking to make sure we were buckled up and the pilot reduced speed.
Yeah, I (partially) take it back - actually they were fine with Linux, but when a full version of Windows was crammed on them the OS used all the resources and they were pigs. The Linux netbooks had a very short life, only shipping until MS caught on and started selling a cheap version of Windows.
More like something happens to your radio or antenna, but your systems are still otherwise OK. So you can get back to earth from some point in space, but mission control can't make course corrections and such. Fortunately, you have this space GPS doobly-doo that can let your computer guide itself.
Don't be too hard on him - he's paid to post anti-US stuff.
No, they'll call it "take the envelope challenge!" and it will be delivered by a 20-something with the enthusiasm of a crack addict finding a 50 dollar bill and overdubbed with pulsing royalty-free music.
I mean, we're digging pretty deep into a joke now - but Googling around it sounds like they are "views" and not "unique views". They take some measures to fight fraud, but a single person watching a video multiple times ostensibly counts as multiple views.
Touche.
Netbooks were around MANY years before the OLPC
Well then they weren't called "netbooks":
Google Trends "One Laptop Per Child" vs "Netbook"
and cost about $600 instead of the full price of a Laptop
That is more than 3x the cost of the eventual OLPC. That's 3x fewer kids with laptops.
divided between Ultrabooks or Macbook Airs;
The higher-end ones you were referring to, yes. But the sub-$300 things people were calling "netbooks" are probably closest to Chromebooks today. An Air is pretty darned high-end. Netbooks mostly ran on an Atom and were pretty disappointing even by the standards of the day.
Indeed it is. Which is why I say millions of millennials. The billion views? That's because they need to watch it several times, then return to the page dozens of times to reply to comments.
They need nutrition, and sanitation, and a clean water supply.
They also need education, or they will be as dependent on nutrition, sanitation, and water charities as they are.
Alternate perspective - my inlaws we're hungry growing up. They were raised by widows in the 3rd world. They did their homework by candlelight. Education is what allowed them to pull themselves (and eventually their parents) out of poverty. I'm not saying that clean water and food aren't important, but it's certainly possible to work on education without negatively impacting efforts to improve access to food and water. And education can be used to improve one's income, which can then be used to buy food and water - rather than rely on charity.
Most Snake People were born before the internet was a thing, and have sent plenty of personal letters growing up. And learned cursive in 3rd grade like everyone else. You're thinking of The Zolom's Children.
I was just trying to trivialize the inconvenience - don't take the lighthearted yank at the millennials too seriously.
"Someone else's cheaper device" in 2006 would not have been Android, which of course did not exist. It probably would have been a cheap feature phone or Palm knockoff. Shortly after it was announced, there was a new category of cheap laptop referred to as a "netbook" - and they were very hot for a while... but even those never really broke the $100 price point.
This misses the whole point that this system failed on the due date for a mandatory payment.
While I agree that is a hilarious example of a government IT fail, there are other ways to pay. If you waited until the last minute to file and your only consequence is that you need to run an extra errand I'd say you're still doing pretty well. You can always send it in the next day and suffer the practically non-existent penalty. Hell, my state tax is going in a day late because I forgot to have my wife sign it and she won't be home in time. If they come at me for the fine it will be $0.02.
Um, there are 83 million millennials. In theory, they should all be paying taxes. Even if only 2% of them waited until the last minute to file, we're in the millions.
I was making a cheap lighthearted millennial joke, don't read too much into it. Of course you can fill out a check without cursive - but back when schools taught such things, they taught us to fill checks out in cursive because it was harder to alter. The intent of my post was a sarcastic response to the parent, who seemed to think that the alternative ways to pay the IRS were onerous enough to warrant extending the deadline. Anyone born prior to 1990 would probably just whip out their checkbook and address an envelope without thinking too much of it. They might even have a stamp in a drawer somewhere.
Do you also use crayon?
It's typically used to fill out a check because it is hard to alter. It's also used for your signature, unless you are a millenial in which case your hand would cramp up writing that many letters. ;p
Millions of millennials will need to learn cursive writing so that they can fill out a check. The YouTube video for how to address and stamp an envelope will be the first in 2018 with a billion views.
They did not do it like every other business, unless you mean the way it was done in the 50s. Businesses have been required to fund pensions for decades now, and you'll notice that once promises became liabilities the pensions all went away in the private sector. Slowly government is accepting the standards recommended by accounting regulatory bodies and counting pensions as the liabilities they are.
I'd love to know what your accounting credentials are, if I'm so ignorant. I may be accounting-retarded, but it sounds like you haven't read anything about it in 30 years.
I'll go further - the Washington Post is still a damn fine news source... it's just that they have decided to set aside worries about bias and so you need to go elsewhere for further reading. It's now just "in the mix" as opposed to the kind of thing you could read cover-to-cover and consider yourself well-informed. Maybe it's just false nostalgia on my part...
The problem isn't that the media is getting biased, the problem is that half of the US political establishment has gone so far off the deep end that you can't reach them without an oil rig.
It's not an either/or. Both things have happened. Republicans regularly make indefensible statements, but just read the headlines on CNN any given day (not today, love of war coverage usurps their hatred of Trump) - full of adjectives and they freely mix their news and opinion headlines.