Has anyone counted the lifeboats and done the math?
When I first saw the images, I couldn't help but count the lifeboats. 9 on each side. "6,780 passengers and 2,100 crew" = 8800 souls on board (not counting pets). 8800 / 18 = 488.9 bodies per lifeboat. Damn! And of course if she is going down with a severe list, cut that in half.
To be fair, Holder isn't going to work for the same banks.. not directly anyway. He's returning to the same law firm he left to take the Attorney General job:
It goes back earlier than that. I was invited to pay a visit to NSA at Fort Meade to explain my own home-rolled "CryptoMax" and "CryptoComm" encryption software products (I guess back around '87 or '88), a most interesting visit to say the least.
NSA was pretty insistent back then on hardware solutions, had no tolerance for software solutions at all. I imagine the cryppies were all clutching their chests when Dr. Dobbs Journal published an interesting article on RSA and public key algorithms way back in The Day. (I might still have that volume around:-)
The boys in the big shiny building's cellars found my algorithms (which I had to translate for them from Turbo Pascal and 8086 assembly language, apparently not their languages of choice) very interesting indeed, were most complimentary ("Are you SURE you haven't worked in this business before?", and there were mumbles about "Cray-busting" and the like. Flattering, but I couldn't get their endorsement for the security of the algorithm or code, and they laughed themselves to tears when I asked about foreign export of my programs:-)
And you will find case after case of these "Terms of Service" being thrown out when it actually goes to court. It's just like the "boilerplate" crap I used to run into all the time back in The Day, esp. when I was doing custom software and programming for people. Their lawyers would send this crap; I'd redline through the ridiculous crap and send it back; "But but but.. we NEED this!"; "No, you don't.". We'd finally work it out.
Enough people refuse to buy, or print out the Terms of Service, line out what they don't like, and send it back to Rift. It'll go away.
3KM or so is impressive enough I suppose. But now I'm waiting for someone to take a C-130 up to 25,000 feet or so, lower the tailgate, and toss a drone out the back:-) Then start orbiting (the C-130), and let the drone climb as high from there as it can. I wonder what it would max out at? Might be better to make more efficient high altitude props on the drone for the thin air up there.
I'm also wondering if a drone can autorotate if its batteries went flat.
I noticed they were very careful not to mention even a hint of what those horrible evil dangerous life-threatening "make NYC glow in the dark" tritium levels.
Get smart on the laws and numbers before you panic:
I found my Win10 Pro's Feedback settings were set to "Always" and "Full". They're now "Never" and "Basic". No dire warnings or threats from Microsoft.. yet.
Thanks for those URLs above.. something else to put in my "blocked IP's" Host file maybe.
Friends and I discussed this on an online forum long ago when this problem first began. We all knew that assholes will not cease being assholes, and it wasn't going to go away. I submitted the concept of a "laser-guided" anti-laser missile, one that would ride the beam back to the transmitter. Or now, a constantly orbiting drone with an onboard sniper rifle. Fire back at the source of the laser.. and screw the collateral damage.
Naw, you could do some serious programming with assembly language. They had assemblers and everything.
But I simply can NOT imagine any code for the primitive computers of that day (esp. a Trash-80!) being useful at all for a kid. There's nothing to run the stuff on even if you did finally get it typed in, and no way in hell is anyone (short of a supreme expert running on a hell of a good emulator) gonna port any of that stuff to a modern PC. Hell, have you even tried to FIND a BASIC interpreter for Windows or Macs these days?
I don't play Counterstrike, but I do abhor cheaters of any type! Good for the company to make these honey pits, play a badger game, whatever it takes to crush the godz-cursed scum of the earth.
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Accompanied by some serious threats to never give the careless bastiges another contract.
It doesn't even read minds? Even with Watson helping? Phththth!
Lottery? Or let the astronomers do it?
I suggest "Invisus."
Has anyone counted the lifeboats and done the math?
When I first saw the images, I couldn't help but count the lifeboats. 9 on each side. "6,780 passengers and 2,100 crew" = 8800 souls on board (not counting pets). 8800 / 18 = 488.9 bodies per lifeboat. Damn! And of course if she is going down with a severe list, cut that in half.
Can we spell "Titanic", hmmm?
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This review has a much smaller passenger size (5479); donno which is correct.
http://www.cruisecritic.com/re...
Probably using this lifeboat design, or something similar:
http://www.royalcaribbeanblog....
http://www.rina.org.uk/mega-li...
http://www.rclcorporate.com/oa...
Which is totally inadequate, holding only 370 persons best case, a total of 6600 for the 18 on Harmony of the Seas.
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Nope, I think I'll pass.
To be fair, Holder isn't going to work for the same banks .. not directly anyway. He's returning to the same law firm he left to take the Attorney General job:
http://www.alternet.org/news-a...
The fact that the law firm has those same banks as clients might perhaps explain how and why he got the Attorney General job in the first place, ne?
His replacement, Loretta Lynch, is no better:
http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...
Even then they're slower. More air drag, don't you know?
Damn! I'd PAY to watch that movie!
It goes back earlier than that. I was invited to pay a visit to NSA at Fort Meade to explain my own home-rolled "CryptoMax" and "CryptoComm" encryption software products (I guess back around '87 or '88), a most interesting visit to say the least.
NSA was pretty insistent back then on hardware solutions, had no tolerance for software solutions at all. I imagine the cryppies were all clutching their chests when Dr. Dobbs Journal published an interesting article on RSA and public key algorithms way back in The Day. (I might still have that volume around :-)
The boys in the big shiny building's cellars found my algorithms (which I had to translate for them from Turbo Pascal and 8086 assembly language, apparently not their languages of choice) very interesting indeed, were most complimentary ("Are you SURE you haven't worked in this business before?", and there were mumbles about "Cray-busting" and the like. Flattering, but I couldn't get their endorsement for the security of the algorithm or code, and they laughed themselves to tears when I asked about foreign export of my programs :-)
Many of the details are fascinating .. but I'm not sure they got it all quite right. Nice details about the lifeboats, etc.
But watch how the stern levels out after it breaks away from the bow. I read many reports that the stern went vertical, not horizontal.
is going for how much?
http://www.virtualcointoss.com...
And you will find case after case of these "Terms of Service" being thrown out when it actually goes to court. It's just like the "boilerplate" crap I used to run into all the time back in The Day, esp. when I was doing custom software and programming for people. Their lawyers would send this crap; I'd redline through the ridiculous crap and send it back; "But but but .. we NEED this!"; "No, you don't.". We'd finally work it out.
Enough people refuse to buy, or print out the Terms of Service, line out what they don't like, and send it back to Rift. It'll go away.
Wot? No jokes about ancient gods?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just because we can't pronounce it, doesn't mean we can't laugh about it!
3KM or so is impressive enough I suppose. But now I'm waiting for someone to take a C-130 up to 25,000 feet or so, lower the tailgate, and toss a drone out the back :-) Then start orbiting (the C-130), and let the drone climb as high from there as it can. I wonder what it would max out at? Might be better to make more efficient high altitude props on the drone for the thin air up there.
I'm also wondering if a drone can autorotate if its batteries went flat.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/...
Yeah, java code in haiku format :-)
Even if corporations have no right to free speech, Apple could hardly force their own (human) programmers to code what they didn't want to.
The trick then would be for the Feds to identify Apple programmers willing to do the work.
Hey .. I know code! Maybe if the Feds offered me a big enough bonus ...
No, wait .. I don't work for Apple. Oh well ...
I noticed they were very careful not to mention even a hint of what those horrible evil dangerous life-threatening "make NYC glow in the dark" tritium levels.
Get smart on the laws and numbers before you panic:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/...
I'll bet the levels they're shrieking about are WAY below what's being emitted in the subspace beneath my house.
I found my Win10 Pro's Feedback settings were set to "Always" and "Full". They're now "Never" and "Basic". No dire warnings or threats from Microsoft .. yet.
Thanks for those URLs above .. something else to put in my "blocked IP's" Host file maybe.
Friends and I discussed this on an online forum long ago when this problem first began. We all knew that assholes will not cease being assholes, and it wasn't going to go away. I submitted the concept of a "laser-guided" anti-laser missile, one that would ride the beam back to the transmitter. Or now, a constantly orbiting drone with an onboard sniper rifle. Fire back at the source of the laser .. and screw the collateral damage.
Agreed. Although it makes you wonder why Uber and Lyft are fighting this fingerprint and background check thing so desperately.
Naw, you could do some serious programming with assembly language. They had assemblers and everything.
But I simply can NOT imagine any code for the primitive computers of that day (esp. a Trash-80!) being useful at all for a kid. There's nothing to run the stuff on even if you did finally get it typed in, and no way in hell is anyone (short of a supreme expert running on a hell of a good emulator) gonna port any of that stuff to a modern PC. Hell, have you even tried to FIND a BASIC interpreter for Windows or Macs these days?
Replacing "In" with "Through", of course.
And the damned proprietary executable they require you to download and install, just to then download the program or file you actually want.
I don't go to download.com, a pox on them and all their houses.
Riiii-ight.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/12...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/twhyla...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/out...
I don't play Counterstrike, but I do abhor cheaters of any type! Good for the company to make these honey pits, play a badger game, whatever it takes to crush the godz-cursed scum of the earth.