Perhaps if you read her website, you wouldn't have needed to ask.
Today our state faces a recall effort that stands as a right-hook to the already bloody nose of our democratic republic. Republicans who vigorously denounced as "undemocratic" the last minute replacement of Senate candidate Robert Toricelli before last year's election are now trying to replace a candidate after an election. Those who once attacked the do-as-you-please liberal culture have adopted that culture in full force, as long as it serves to increase their power.
This recall is a farce. It gives us no options and asks us "What's your decision?".
The Patriot Act? Isn't that the new Broadway show with Matthew Broderick and Mel Gibson? The NY Post said it was "laugh out loud funny". Are you giving away free tickets? Form? What form? Oh sure.
Alexei Credulus
23-70 83rd Street, #27
Flushing NY 11423
(718) 673-0483
SSN 781-23-6557
9/7/76
Employer name:
Quixtar Corp.
17-34 21st Road
Long Island City, NY 11003
Here's my credit card number. You'll mail them? Thanks man, I love musicals!
I am hoping there is more to this case than just buying an adult magazine, but according to the article the offense took place in Texas, which makes it less surprising that such a rediculous case is even being considered.
He was working as a clerk at a store that sold adult comics, among other things. As part of an extended investigation, the cop bought a copy of "Demon Beast", which, if it's what I think it is, is basically a tentacle-rape manga. Castillo happened to be the clerk on duty that night, and by Texas law that made him the guilty party.
Is this really so surprising coming from the state that gave us two Bushes, bizarre sodomy laws, and rampant miscarriage of justice by racist cops and a bloodthirsty court system?
So you're suggesting that they navigate by dead reckoning? How would they:
a) Adjust for wind, which messes up distance calculations
b) Adjust for deviations in the magnetic compass as a result
of proximity to the earth's magnetic pole
c) Figure out where the plane ended up assuming it actually gets to the other side of the pond
Of course, maybe you just have a different notion of what constitutes a "simple instrument".
(from Newfoundland to Ireland). Their plan, using GPS, onboard controllers, and a gallon of gas, would have been the first to cross the Atlantic under FAI rules. They didn't have much luck last year, but now they're at it again. The first launch should be tonight."
You know you're reading Slashdot when "GPS" and "FAI" are assumed to require less background info than "Newfoundland".
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Picturing a fat limey with brown teeth, clicking on one of those "your internet connection is not secure!" banner ads, as black-clad geeks gesticulate wildly in the background.
If anyone knows of something others can do, please post here. I'm too unorganized in my personal life at the moment to spearhead anything, but I'd like to participate if anyone else has gotten the ball rolling. This whole thing makes me feel unsafe in my own country.
My thoughts exactly. If anyone else is willing to spearhead the effort, I'd be quite happy to side with whoever wins.
On second thought I'm too lazy to follow up on this, and you can't have my email address because anonymity is an important aspect of democracy. So when the coast is clear, would you please make sure your efforts get posted on Slashdot so I can claim my share of moral triumph?
I know there is something going on behind MY eyes, but why couldn't you be just a complicated toaster?
I once had a girlfriend... (waits for laughter to subside)
I once had a girlfriend who made me ponder this question every day. I'd gaze deep into its brown eyes and think to myself, "this toaster is pretty complicated, but there's must be something wrong because it screams even when I'm not hitting it."
Except Microdrives are susceptible to environmental issues (e.g. altitude) and are more fragile. 4 1GB CF cards would be the way to go if you're paranoid.
A great concept and kudos to those involved, except for one thing. The only way to get it working is to install an obscure cyberpunk OS that reeks of h4cktivismo.
I believe the keyword(tm) is "Plausible Deniability", and a key part of that is looking as normal as possible.
Or anyone who teaches at a well-funded school in an expensive suburb. But the kind of schools that would profit from this are the humungous, overcrowded, underfunded inner-city public schools where the overworked staff barely has the resources to teach properly, let alone monitor each kid's personal life.
It reminds me of the AOpen Tube Amp Motherboard. Stuff like this might get my respect if it was hacked together in some guy's basement, but from a major hardware firm it amounts to marketing fluff.
A common theme among these posts seems to be that dress shirts are uncomfortable. I hated dress shirts too, until I started wearing more expensive shirts.
I have a roughly 15 3/4" neck. Most ready-made shirts only come in half sizes so it's a choice between too small and too big. Solution is to wear thick, heavy ties and tie a hefty knot that covers up the top button area so the slightly oversized collar isn't too obvious.
Next step is custom made shirts. Brook Bros custom shirts start around $90, which sounds bad compared to Today's Man, but isn't all that bad for something you wear every day. They also last a hell of a lot longer than Today's Man. However, anything from a well-respected shirtmaker, even if it's ready-made, will be more comfortable due to workmanship and materials.
It is also *forbidden* to speak about work-related issues during lunch.
So your coworkers actually have lives to talk about?
Maybe that works in Switzerland, where you can talk about the alpine flowers and What Happened to the Marcos Billions, but over here we'd be subject to an hour's debate over Oprah episodes, Justin Timberlake and the Kobe Bryant sex scandal. No thank you! I'd rather talk about work.
Right on. My passport (US) has a digitized photo anyway, so I would assume my digital mug is floating around in a Federal computer system somewhere. Given that airlines generally (if not universally) maintain passport numbers in the passenger manifest of any flight in and out of this country, it's a trivial matter to have the pictures up and ready when the flight lands at its port of entry.
The European scheme, with fingerprints and retinal scans, would disturb me a bit more if I were subject to it.
They aschew [sic] their curtural ties to the US in attempt to identify themselves with (South American/European) counterparts. However, they simply end up becoming cultural bastards, belonging to neither.
So by that logic, Brazil is eschewing its cultural ties to Paraguay by refusing to speak Spanish?
Those cultural bastards. Serves them right that Paraguayans have to bend over backwards to communicate when visiting.
1) Hack into the system from the ground and make "the sky" a forbidden zone, causing all equipped planes to crash.
2) Take over a plane, aim it at a big city, and max out the throttle until the flying surfaces get overspeed damage and fall off (usually happens to the horizontal stabilizers first, but the ailerons should go eventually). The plane turns into an unguided projectile and powers straight through the soft wall. Directional input without flight control surfaces is still possible in a multi-engined plane (a la UA232 in the early 90's)
3) Find a plane that has no fly-by-wire system, or has a backup mechanical system (like all American-built planes, and all planes built before the 1980s - including the 747. What, did you think they were going to throw out all those old planes?). Disable the fly-by-wire system if necessary, by killing the hydraulics or the electrical system.
4) If all else fails, crash it into the ground or into another plane.
This system isn't the solution. I'd rather see Patriot missile batteries, or armed pilots (and I don't like the idea of armed pilots either). Hell, put a self-destruct button in the cockpit; at least then the pilot has some control over the matter.
Sorry if this isn't constructive criticism, but the idea sucks to the core.
Not the same thing. The black side heats the air, and the hot air makes it turn. If it were in a perfect vacuum, it wouldn't move perceptibly unless the paddles were evaporating on one side, or something along those lines.
RTFA and it says the sunlight is being reflected. If my memory of Artur Clarke serves me, it would require enormous sails (on the scale of kilometers, not meters) to propel a voyager-sized spacecraft. So you wouldn't see the same effect in a DIY home experiment.
I have heard that crushed gems were used in the varnish of those antique violins and people think that this might be why the sound is unique.
I'm going a little OT here, but here's my take on that (caveat: IANAL where L = Luthier):
I don't buy the "special formula" theory on Stradivari. There were plenty of great luthiers of his era (as well as before and after) who took a different approach than that of Stradivari, and yet produced equally great results. Stradivari is the most famous because he made a crapload (almost 700 surviving, god-knows how many produced) of instruments. One of his hallmarks, aside from the sound, is the physical appearance of his instruments. He paid an unusual amount of attention to the shape of the scroll, the varnish, and other aspects which may or may not have had an impact on sound. But the theories like the one quoted above are nothing but romanticism. (Kind of like the ones that describe ancient Italian potters as "nanotechnologists").
Ask a professional Violinist/Violist/Cellist what instrument he/she really wants, and "Stradivarius" will not be the first thing out of his mouth. It's like saying Ferrari makes the "best" cars. Great cars, but "best" is in the eye of the beholder.
Just because they produced a certain result does not mean they understood how that result came about. Sure makes for a clever sound bite, though. "Billionths of a meter" sounds much more impressive than using an appropriate unit, like millimeters or angstroms or something.
Better yet, express it in fractions of a light year! That way you can call them astrophysicists as well!
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Today our state faces a recall effort that stands as a right-hook to the already bloody nose of our democratic republic. Republicans who vigorously denounced as "undemocratic" the last minute replacement of Senate candidate Robert Toricelli before last year's election are now trying to replace a candidate after an election. Those who once attacked the do-as-you-please liberal culture have adopted that culture in full force, as long as it serves to increase their power.
This recall is a farce. It gives us no options and asks us "What's your decision?".
Alexei Credulus
23-70 83rd Street, #27
Flushing NY 11423
(718) 673-0483
SSN 781-23-6557
9/7/76
Employer name:
Quixtar Corp.
17-34 21st Road
Long Island City, NY 11003
Here's my credit card number. You'll mail them? Thanks man, I love musicals!
He was working as a clerk at a store that sold adult comics, among other things. As part of an extended investigation, the cop bought a copy of "Demon Beast", which, if it's what I think it is, is basically a tentacle-rape manga. Castillo happened to be the clerk on duty that night, and by Texas law that made him the guilty party.
Is this really so surprising coming from the state that gave us two Bushes, bizarre sodomy laws, and rampant miscarriage of justice by racist cops and a bloodthirsty court system?
a) Adjust for wind, which messes up distance calculations
b) Adjust for deviations in the magnetic compass as a result of proximity to the earth's magnetic pole
c) Figure out where the plane ended up assuming it actually gets to the other side of the pond
Of course, maybe you just have a different notion of what constitutes a "simple instrument".
You know you're reading Slashdot when "GPS" and "FAI" are assumed to require less background info than "Newfoundland".
Picturing a fat limey with brown teeth, clicking on one of those "your internet connection is not secure!" banner ads, as black-clad geeks gesticulate wildly in the background.
My thoughts exactly. If anyone else is willing to spearhead the effort, I'd be quite happy to side with whoever wins.
On second thought I'm too lazy to follow up on this, and you can't have my email address because anonymity is an important aspect of democracy. So when the coast is clear, would you please make sure your efforts get posted on Slashdot so I can claim my share of moral triumph?
I once had a girlfriend... (waits for laughter to subside)
I once had a girlfriend who made me ponder this question every day. I'd gaze deep into its brown eyes and think to myself, "this toaster is pretty complicated, but there's must be something wrong because it screams even when I'm not hitting it."
Self powered diabetes control systems. You can use the excess glucose into power, and when the level is too low, it can release a reserve of glucose.
Weight loss implants. Eat all the chocolate you like, and then use it to start your car.
This was actually my idea before sorehands came along and stole it. So... is your sister hot?
Except Microdrives are susceptible to environmental issues (e.g. altitude) and are more fragile. 4 1GB CF cards would be the way to go if you're paranoid.
I believe the keyword(tm) is "Plausible Deniability", and a key part of that is looking as normal as possible.
Or anyone who teaches at a well-funded school in an expensive suburb. But the kind of schools that would profit from this are the humungous, overcrowded, underfunded inner-city public schools where the overworked staff barely has the resources to teach properly, let alone monitor each kid's personal life.
It reminds me of the AOpen Tube Amp Motherboard. Stuff like this might get my respect if it was hacked together in some guy's basement, but from a major hardware firm it amounts to marketing fluff.
The Axed Docs are on Cryptome.
I have a roughly 15 3/4" neck. Most ready-made shirts only come in half sizes so it's a choice between too small and too big. Solution is to wear thick, heavy ties and tie a hefty knot that covers up the top button area so the slightly oversized collar isn't too obvious.
Next step is custom made shirts. Brook Bros custom shirts start around $90, which sounds bad compared to Today's Man, but isn't all that bad for something you wear every day. They also last a hell of a lot longer than Today's Man. However, anything from a well-respected shirtmaker, even if it's ready-made, will be more comfortable due to workmanship and materials.
So your coworkers actually have lives to talk about?
Maybe that works in Switzerland, where you can talk about the alpine flowers and What Happened to the Marcos Billions, but over here we'd be subject to an hour's debate over Oprah episodes, Justin Timberlake and the Kobe Bryant sex scandal. No thank you! I'd rather talk about work.
You could always try Space Combat, also by Austin Myers.
The European scheme, with fingerprints and retinal scans, would disturb me a bit more if I were subject to it.
So by that logic, Brazil is eschewing its cultural ties to Paraguay by refusing to speak Spanish?
Those cultural bastards. Serves them right that Paraguayans have to bend over backwards to communicate when visiting.
2) Take over a plane, aim it at a big city, and max out the throttle until the flying surfaces get overspeed damage and fall off (usually happens to the horizontal stabilizers first, but the ailerons should go eventually). The plane turns into an unguided projectile and powers straight through the soft wall. Directional input without flight control surfaces is still possible in a multi-engined plane (a la UA232 in the early 90's)
3) Find a plane that has no fly-by-wire system, or has a backup mechanical system (like all American-built planes, and all planes built before the 1980s - including the 747. What, did you think they were going to throw out all those old planes?). Disable the fly-by-wire system if necessary, by killing the hydraulics or the electrical system.
4) If all else fails, crash it into the ground or into another plane.
This system isn't the solution. I'd rather see Patriot missile batteries, or armed pilots (and I don't like the idea of armed pilots either). Hell, put a self-destruct button in the cockpit; at least then the pilot has some control over the matter.
Sorry if this isn't constructive criticism, but the idea sucks to the core.
RTFA and it says the sunlight is being reflected. If my memory of Artur Clarke serves me, it would require enormous sails (on the scale of kilometers, not meters) to propel a voyager-sized spacecraft. So you wouldn't see the same effect in a DIY home experiment.
I'm going a little OT here, but here's my take on that (caveat: IANAL where L = Luthier):
I don't buy the "special formula" theory on Stradivari. There were plenty of great luthiers of his era (as well as before and after) who took a different approach than that of Stradivari, and yet produced equally great results. Stradivari is the most famous because he made a crapload (almost 700 surviving, god-knows how many produced) of instruments. One of his hallmarks, aside from the sound, is the physical appearance of his instruments. He paid an unusual amount of attention to the shape of the scroll, the varnish, and other aspects which may or may not have had an impact on sound. But the theories like the one quoted above are nothing but romanticism. (Kind of like the ones that describe ancient Italian potters as "nanotechnologists").
Ask a professional Violinist/Violist/Cellist what instrument he/she really wants, and "Stradivarius" will not be the first thing out of his mouth. It's like saying Ferrari makes the "best" cars. Great cars, but "best" is in the eye of the beholder.
Better yet, express it in fractions of a light year! That way you can call them astrophysicists as well!
With 80,000 active processors it ought to be up there with the best of them. Too bad it doesn't meet the definition of "supercomputer".
That said, can we be released from the Matrix now?