"Today. things are a lot different. If I saw a bank robbery in progress, and subdued the robber with my handguns (which I'd be proudly carrying around my hips, 2nd amendment folks), I'd be thrown in jail. If the robber tried to shoot me and I shot back and laid him flat on his back six-feet under, then I would be facing life in prison."
In Texas, you wouldn't be in a bit of trouble. I dunno about any other states.
Very very few accidents are caused by excessive speed. Far more are caused by illegal left turns - yet far fewer tickets are given for those, and much fewer resources are devoted to preventing them. Why? It's too hard, and doesn't generate as much revenue as a radar speed trap does. It's totally about money.
I just sololed as part of my flight training, and at every critical step, I recited the thing my instructor would typically say at that step as a way of focussing on what had to be done (although it wasn't "pitch, yaw, roll", it was more like "right rudder! right rudder!" and "keep it coming down!"), so I didn't see anything ludicrous about a pilot talking to herself to concentrate at all unusual.
Einstein once said something to the effect that he might believe in a god, but it would have to be a god as described in the philosophy of Spinoza...which isn't at all like a god the religionists imagine when they misquoute him.
Right, because, after all, sexy, partial-to-fully cybernetic women were introduced to science fiction by Star Trek. Oh, wait, not really, maybe it was in a little film called Metropolis frm 1927? Heck, it may have been before then, that's just the oldest reference I came up with on the spur of the moment.
Grow up, trekkies - every idea in SF did not originate in the Star Trek universe (damn few did, come to think of it). Sexy cyborgs and robots were a staple of the pulp magazine years of the 30s and 40s.
There is often confusion about what the job of the traffic police is. They are not there to serve a law enforcement or safety function. Their job is that of revenue collection agents. Thus, we have speed traps, the easiest way to apply the tax, rather than illegal left turn traps, a far more dangerous activity, but too hard to set up revenue generating traps for.
For the longest time,w e had the 55 mph speed limit tax, purportedly to conserve fuel, rather than police checking for underinflated tires, which wastes far more fuel than higher speed limits ever did - the reason, again,is becuase speed limit tax traps are easier to conduct.
I pretty much agree with you, but I think Plato influenced the Christian mythology mugh more than Socrates. He was the Greek philosopher who started all this nonsence about belief in an immaterial, ideal, other world that is core to the Christian cults.
Yes. It was spot on. It corrected the biggest deficiency from a previous Hunter S. Thompson move, "Where the Buffalo Roam", by letting us see the world from through the eyes of Thompson, experiencing the horror of the hallucinations first hand.
It was a full length book - and, several key elements of the book were totally missing in the movie (Mercerism, for one).
Speaking of PKD, wouldn't "The Three Stigmata of Palmer K. Eldritch" make a great movie (if one right) - and does "The SIMS" remind anyone else of Perky Pat Layouts?
Yahh skin tight vac suits that rely on mechanical pressure to augment your skins pressure holding ability - new and exciting technology. I remember how exciting it was to read about...in 1968, when it was first discussed.
Tell him the VT100 was great (I still have several of them) but the way the case top attaches to the case bottom really sucked - the plastic pins & bushings would break if they were spoke to harshly.
I haven't looked at the numbers lately, but in the past, the financial return on getting a Ph. D. was almost always negative...most Ph. D. holders would have done far better financially if they had invested the money it took to get the advanced degrees and got a job immediately after their Bachelor's degree instead.
Yah Nowhere Man was great! Real existential stuff, with a Phil Dick sort of feel to it. The guy playing the Nowhere Man was perfect for the part, he conveyed the overwhelemed, but still swinging sort of desperation that the part called for. I was really annoyed when it was cancelled.
Reliability, scalability, uptime, high performance wide area clustering, no viruses, very few security problems of any kind (and those occur mostly in code migrated from unixland). A few of the reasons people choose VMS for an operating system.
Individual VMS systems often have multi year uptimes (even in heavily used environments). VMS clusters have uptimes even longer still.
And that's leaving out any of the religious flavored arguments about what OS is easier to administer and use.
Morse code is still used for identifying VOR and NDB beacons in aviation. Being able to ident them just by listening, rather than having to look up the dots & dashes cheat sheet on the aviation sectional can really help to reduce the cockpit workload, especially when you're lost, or can easily get lost if you misidentify one.
That would be great. It reminds me of the episode of the Freak Brothers where they decided to quit drugs. In each panel, things got more and more "real" looking, until near the end, when the panel was an actual photo of three guys sitting around a table, who looked just like the Freak Brothers. Then, "Klang! Honk! Tweet!", and they were back to their normal, cartoon drawn selves.
The previous one was made only to fulfill some legal obligation of the optioning of the movie. I've never seen it, but legend has it, that it is...not good...very bad in fact. Much less than fantastic...
Your grandfather may have been able to get organic produce, but he couldn't get fruits and vegetables out of season...lack of cheap refrigeration and cheap transport meant folks back in the day were very much at the mercy of the growing season, not like today with frozen foods and fresh produce from the souther hemisphere available in the winter here in the USA
Actually, Galileo made much of his own problems with the Catholic Church. A better example of abuse of a man of science by the church would be Giordano Bruno...he didn't get house arrest for his ideas...
If ya were a real computer person, you'd want the HP16C.
I bought one 22 years ago, and liked it so much, I bought 3 more so I would alway have one...22 years later, the first one is still going strong...
Not so much overheating, but the problems of vaccum welding of the moving parts and the fact that many lubricants don't work at all in vacuum and cold could cause a weapon to fail to function. Thus, putting Thelma in a suit to fire at the Reavers made sense, not that Josh Whedon understood that bit of physics...
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"Today. things are a lot different. If I saw a bank robbery in progress, and subdued the robber with my handguns (which I'd be proudly carrying around my hips, 2nd amendment folks), I'd be thrown in jail. If the robber tried to shoot me and I shot back and laid him flat on his back six-feet under, then I would be facing life in prison." In Texas, you wouldn't be in a bit of trouble. I dunno about any other states.
Very very few accidents are caused by excessive speed. Far more are caused by illegal left turns - yet far fewer tickets are given for those, and much fewer resources are devoted to preventing them. Why? It's too hard, and doesn't generate as much revenue as a radar speed trap does. It's totally about money.
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Not only that, if his HV supply is putting out too much voltage, he's getting soft x-rays beamed into his head by this thing...not good.
I just sololed as part of my flight training, and at every critical step, I recited the thing my instructor would typically say at that step as a way of focussing on what had to be done (although it wasn't "pitch, yaw, roll", it was more like "right rudder! right rudder!" and "keep it coming down!"), so I didn't see anything ludicrous about a pilot talking to herself to concentrate at all unusual.
Einstein once said something to the effect that he might believe in a god, but it would have to be a god as described in the philosophy of Spinoza...which isn't at all like a god the religionists imagine when they misquoute him.
Right, because, after all, sexy, partial-to-fully cybernetic women were introduced to science fiction by Star Trek. Oh, wait, not really, maybe it was in a little film called Metropolis frm 1927? Heck, it may have been before then, that's just the oldest reference I came up with on the spur of the moment. Grow up, trekkies - every idea in SF did not originate in the Star Trek universe (damn few did, come to think of it). Sexy cyborgs and robots were a staple of the pulp magazine years of the 30s and 40s.
There is often confusion about what the job of the traffic police is. They are not there to serve a law enforcement or safety function. Their job is that of revenue collection agents. Thus, we have speed traps, the easiest way to apply the tax, rather than illegal left turn traps, a far more dangerous activity, but too hard to set up revenue generating traps for. For the longest time,w e had the 55 mph speed limit tax, purportedly to conserve fuel, rather than police checking for underinflated tires, which wastes far more fuel than higher speed limits ever did - the reason, again ,is becuase speed limit tax traps are easier to conduct.
I pretty much agree with you, but I think Plato influenced the Christian mythology mugh more than Socrates. He was the Greek philosopher who started all this nonsence about belief in an immaterial, ideal, other world that is core to the Christian cults.
Yes. It was spot on. It corrected the biggest deficiency from a previous Hunter S. Thompson move, "Where the Buffalo Roam", by letting us see the world from through the eyes of Thompson, experiencing the horror of the hallucinations first hand.
It was a full length book - and, several key elements of the book were totally missing in the movie (Mercerism, for one). Speaking of PKD, wouldn't "The Three Stigmata of Palmer K. Eldritch" make a great movie (if one right) - and does "The SIMS" remind anyone else of Perky Pat Layouts?
Yahh skin tight vac suits that rely on mechanical pressure to augment your skins pressure holding ability - new and exciting technology. I remember how exciting it was to read about...in 1968, when it was first discussed.
Tell him the VT100 was great (I still have several of them) but the way the case top attaches to the case bottom really sucked - the plastic pins & bushings would break if they were spoke to harshly.
I haven't looked at the numbers lately, but in the past, the financial return on getting a Ph. D. was almost always negative...most Ph. D. holders would have done far better financially if they had invested the money it took to get the advanced degrees and got a job immediately after their Bachelor's degree instead.
Yah Nowhere Man was great! Real existential stuff, with a Phil Dick sort of feel to it. The guy playing the Nowhere Man was perfect for the part, he conveyed the overwhelemed, but still swinging sort of desperation that the part called for. I was really annoyed when it was cancelled.
Reliability, scalability, uptime, high performance wide area clustering, no viruses, very few security problems of any kind (and those occur mostly in code migrated from unixland). A few of the reasons people choose VMS for an operating system. Individual VMS systems often have multi year uptimes (even in heavily used environments). VMS clusters have uptimes even longer still. And that's leaving out any of the religious flavored arguments about what OS is easier to administer and use.
Morse code is still used for identifying VOR and NDB beacons in aviation. Being able to ident them just by listening, rather than having to look up the dots & dashes cheat sheet on the aviation sectional can really help to reduce the cockpit workload, especially when you're lost, or can easily get lost if you misidentify one.
That would be great. It reminds me of the episode of the Freak Brothers where they decided to quit drugs. In each panel, things got more and more "real" looking, until near the end, when the panel was an actual photo of three guys sitting around a table, who looked just like the Freak Brothers. Then, "Klang! Honk! Tweet!", and they were back to their normal, cartoon drawn selves.
The previous one was made only to fulfill some legal obligation of the optioning of the movie. I've never seen it, but legend has it, that it is...not good...very bad in fact. Much less than fantastic...
Your grandfather may have been able to get organic produce, but he couldn't get fruits and vegetables out of season...lack of cheap refrigeration and cheap transport meant folks back in the day were very much at the mercy of the growing season, not like today with frozen foods and fresh produce from the souther hemisphere available in the winter here in the USA
Actually, Galileo made much of his own problems with the Catholic Church. A better example of abuse of a man of science by the church would be Giordano Bruno...he didn't get house arrest for his ideas...
What about the Crusade against the peace loving Cathars?
If ya were a real computer person, you'd want the HP16C. I bought one 22 years ago, and liked it so much, I bought 3 more so I would alway have one...22 years later, the first one is still going strong...
Man, you must be really old if you can remember that far back...the Middle Ages was a long time ago...
Not so much overheating, but the problems of vaccum welding of the moving parts and the fact that many lubricants don't work at all in vacuum and cold could cause a weapon to fail to function. Thus, putting Thelma in a suit to fire at the Reavers made sense, not that Josh Whedon understood that bit of physics...