Yes, I really do think they would shoot it down. If the plane strays then it means the pilot is either not in control or not obeying instructions from the air traffic control. Either one of those conditions will tighten enough sphincters on the ground that the kill order will be given if they fail to repsond to enough radio hails.
They scrambled a couple of fighters to deal with a float plane in restricted airspace back in 2010. I'd heard military jets howling overhead many times, but I'd never heard a sonic boom (except on TV) before that day.
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TNG got better in the second second, years before Roddenberry died. The episode "The Measure of a Man" was when I knew the series had turned a corner in its writing and that aired in early 1989. The writers strike cast a pall over the end of season 2 but overall it was worlds better than the stinkaroo first season.
As for Star Wars, there's a trove of stories and characters to be mined from the extended universe of Star Wars books and comics. Lucas will be a good consultant to sort the good from the not so good in that morass. Given how many times he's re-edited the old films I can't really believe Lucas' hand will ever be all the way out.
I agree. IMO the complaints about the prequels were fueled primarily by nostalgia about the original movies, remembering the delight of seeing them as a child. I rewatched the original trilogy as an adult and wasn't nearly so enchanted. That shouldn't be surprising. These are all children's movies; we grew up. Lucas' movies didn't change so much as we did.
The simplest strategy would have been to have already moved to a non-extradition country. He'd already racked up tens of millions of dollars in profits! What was he waiting for?
The closest thing to your idea that actually existed was the Digital Modul R back for Leica R8 and R9 SLRs. Even this was a white elephant compared to Canon's full frame cameras at the time. Photographers would buy a Canon 1-series camera and take a Dremel to the mirror so they could fit Leica R lenses on it, rather than deal with the Modul R.
Don't put all legally blind people into the same box. I find pretty much any tablet a delight to use. I'm extremely near-sighted (20/200 in the *good* eye) but I can put the tablet as close to my face as I need. Pinch/spread zooming works for the sites with hideously small fonts, provided the stupid site doesn't disable it (I'm talking about you, nytimes.com). Three finger double tap and drag works for those.
iOS on an iPad has worked very well for me, but I've used other normal sized tablets (9-10 inch diagonal) without significant difficulty.
Well, yeah, KSM earned every morsel of agony he enjoyed at the hands of the CIA. But even when he didn't have any information, they kept on torturing him. These are the same bastards who'll come for you and me if they think our communications are linked with some kind of national security threat. You want to have something to tell them when you've finally had a bellyful of pain? Or do you want to hope that the twentieth time is the charm when you tell them that you really, REALLY can't remember that password? The law is no impediment to these sick people.
Let's hope they believe you've forgotten the keys before they intermittently pour water down your nostrils for a few days. Plausible deniability only works well if you're dealing with people whose actions are constrained by reason and the law. Ask KSM how not knowing the answer to some questions worked for him.
It's too late to be worried about experimentation; we're already experimenting on this planet. All they are talking about is more experimentation on top of what we're already doing by digging naturally sequestered carbon out of the ground and releasing it by the gigaton into the atmosphere. At least now there are people paying attention to the results of the experimentation.
They already have access to the machine, address book, etc. so they don't even need to offer the rebate for that. They should reserve the rebate for infections they could not get themselves, like putting the malware on a memory stick, walking it to someone else's computer and manually launching the ransomware.
And if they knew how to factor large integers efficiently they certainly would not tell us, since we'd all immediately move to ciphers unrelated to factoring integers. The NSA has no reason to tell us how great their cracking tools are. So if they are bragging, it's because they are trying to scare us off something that works and onto something that doesn't.
Me too, but honestly, this level of fanaticism is why every attempt at DRM is broken, every device is jailbroken, etc. Some people are crazy and simply will not take no for an answer. God Bless Them.
If they launch an attack on the U.S., North Korea can kiss their asses goodbye and they know it. They can threaten Sony and get away with it, because public corporations are cowardly by nature. But it is a whole other thing to kill Americans in a terrorist attack today. Iraq is still living in butthurt due to 9/11 and they weren't even involved.
Sony should have released the film and called North Korea's bluff.
You can't know its asisnine until you know what their objective is. If their objective is to get the FBI to kick in the door of everyone who Bittorrented those files or otherwise overreact, then making those threats wasn't asinine at all.
Nope, not a fan of rugby. I've watched rugby matches and the carnage is dialed back a bit, but I've still seen guys laid out cold as a mackeral from hits, and I've seen fingers inadvertently raked across faces.
I'd rather see pro football remain as it is, but also see all school sponsorship of the sport ended. Let the adults who want to make a profession of the game go into it with their eyes wide open, not indoctrinated as impressionable young people. If the sport dies from lack of participation, so be it.
The talent well will dry up as parents keep kids out of the sport--- and that's how a sport dies.
Let it die. The trend for every decade I've been alive is that more brains are needed to survive in the workplace, not less. Not only are the jobs more skilled, there are more rules to follow--- you have to have the mental wherewithal to know when you can and cannot say "fucked her right in the pussy", to use one famous example. We don't need otherwise healthy people starting at a deficit because they placed some game during their developmental years.
Helmets also prevent injuries such as fish-hooking the mouth, ears being ripped off, teeth being knocked out, and eyes being gouged, not to mention incidental facial abrasions from being tackled on artificial turf. Playing helmetless would like decrease head to head collisions, but would do nothing for other body parts smashing into the head. A man being wrestled to the ground by multiple opponents is likely to catch a knee or elbow, or get slammed on his back, bashing his head into the turf.
There is nothing resembling professional football that I would like to see a human being playing without a helmet.
F-14's, and they are from a single planet's defense industry. You'd expect a whole galaxy full of designers to come up with something better in 25+ years. When a beat-up freighter is both faster and more agile than your top-of-the-line fighters, then maybe killing all the aerospace engineers in a tiff wasn't such a great idea.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons Star Trek felt so wrong. Star Wars pacing and action pasted onto a franchise with callous disregard for pretty much everything. But Star Wars seems a much better fit for Abrams, since that's what he's always wanted to do.
You're kinda missing the point of asteroid mining. The idea is to gather useful materials up there and keep them up there to support a space based civilization. That way you can use and move the stuff around using energy efficient transfer orbits and modest amounts of delta-vee, instead of lifting mountains of material against Earth's gravity. A lot of high-tech from Earth will be needed to bootstrap early operations, but the goal would be a self supporting space-based society based on raw resources available in space, eventually trading with Earth-based societies.
I don't know how long developing such a society would take, but it'll likely be started by people nearly everyone else considers lunatics. Something like Mars One should be a rehearsal for later attempts at colonizing space itself, without a planet under your feet.
I've no comment on Watto, but the pod race was an obvious homage to the chariot race in Ben Hur. I guess they could have demonstrated Anakin's latent force ability in some other way that sold toys, like having him do a fakie 900 blindfolded on his hoverboard. But honestly, the pod race was no more contrived than the ridiculous scenario in Star Wars where they had to fly down this long trench to launch a couple of torpedos.
Well, you heard wrong. SpaceX has launched satellites and delivered cargo to the International Space Station. And to find this out all you had to do was go to their website and click on "NEWS".
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Yes, I really do think they would shoot it down. If the plane strays then it means the pilot is either not in control or not obeying instructions from the air traffic control. Either one of those conditions will tighten enough sphincters on the ground that the kill order will be given if they fail to repsond to enough radio hails. They scrambled a couple of fighters to deal with a float plane in restricted airspace back in 2010. I'd heard military jets howling overhead many times, but I'd never heard a sonic boom (except on TV) before that day. http://www.komonews.com/news/l...
TNG got better in the second second, years before Roddenberry died. The episode "The Measure of a Man" was when I knew the series had turned a corner in its writing and that aired in early 1989. The writers strike cast a pall over the end of season 2 but overall it was worlds better than the stinkaroo first season. As for Star Wars, there's a trove of stories and characters to be mined from the extended universe of Star Wars books and comics. Lucas will be a good consultant to sort the good from the not so good in that morass. Given how many times he's re-edited the old films I can't really believe Lucas' hand will ever be all the way out.
I agree. IMO the complaints about the prequels were fueled primarily by nostalgia about the original movies, remembering the delight of seeing them as a child. I rewatched the original trilogy as an adult and wasn't nearly so enchanted. That shouldn't be surprising. These are all children's movies; we grew up. Lucas' movies didn't change so much as we did.
The simplest strategy would have been to have already moved to a non-extradition country. He'd already racked up tens of millions of dollars in profits! What was he waiting for?
It came and went; you missed it (sort of).
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The closest thing to your idea that actually existed was the Digital Modul R back for Leica R8 and R9 SLRs. Even this was a white elephant compared to Canon's full frame cameras at the time. Photographers would buy a Canon 1-series camera and take a Dremel to the mirror so they could fit Leica R lenses on it, rather than deal with the Modul R.
Don't put all legally blind people into the same box. I find pretty much any tablet a delight to use. I'm extremely near-sighted (20/200 in the *good* eye) but I can put the tablet as close to my face as I need. Pinch/spread zooming works for the sites with hideously small fonts, provided the stupid site doesn't disable it (I'm talking about you, nytimes.com). Three finger double tap and drag works for those. iOS on an iPad has worked very well for me, but I've used other normal sized tablets (9-10 inch diagonal) without significant difficulty.
Well, yeah, KSM earned every morsel of agony he enjoyed at the hands of the CIA. But even when he didn't have any information, they kept on torturing him. These are the same bastards who'll come for you and me if they think our communications are linked with some kind of national security threat. You want to have something to tell them when you've finally had a bellyful of pain? Or do you want to hope that the twentieth time is the charm when you tell them that you really, REALLY can't remember that password? The law is no impediment to these sick people.
Let's hope they believe you've forgotten the keys before they intermittently pour water down your nostrils for a few days. Plausible deniability only works well if you're dealing with people whose actions are constrained by reason and the law. Ask KSM how not knowing the answer to some questions worked for him.
It's too late to be worried about experimentation; we're already experimenting on this planet. All they are talking about is more experimentation on top of what we're already doing by digging naturally sequestered carbon out of the ground and releasing it by the gigaton into the atmosphere. At least now there are people paying attention to the results of the experimentation.
The next day's comic is just as good.
They already have access to the machine, address book, etc. so they don't even need to offer the rebate for that. They should reserve the rebate for infections they could not get themselves, like putting the malware on a memory stick, walking it to someone else's computer and manually launching the ransomware.
And if they knew how to factor large integers efficiently they certainly would not tell us, since we'd all immediately move to ciphers unrelated to factoring integers. The NSA has no reason to tell us how great their cracking tools are. So if they are bragging, it's because they are trying to scare us off something that works and onto something that doesn't.
Me too, but honestly, this level of fanaticism is why every attempt at DRM is broken, every device is jailbroken, etc. Some people are crazy and simply will not take no for an answer. God Bless Them.
If they launch an attack on the U.S., North Korea can kiss their asses goodbye and they know it. They can threaten Sony and get away with it, because public corporations are cowardly by nature. But it is a whole other thing to kill Americans in a terrorist attack today. Iraq is still living in butthurt due to 9/11 and they weren't even involved. Sony should have released the film and called North Korea's bluff.
I can dig it. I've looked up some songs and found that I liked my misheard lyrics better. Toto's "White Sister", for instance:
How can you say you love me?
You don't even love yourself
You live your life like a dog at night
Just waiting on the step
At the time I first heard "Rock the Casbah" I didn't know the word "sharif" so there was no chance at all that I would not mishear that lyric.
You can't know its asisnine until you know what their objective is. If their objective is to get the FBI to kick in the door of everyone who Bittorrented those files or otherwise overreact, then making those threats wasn't asinine at all.
Nope, not a fan of rugby. I've watched rugby matches and the carnage is dialed back a bit, but I've still seen guys laid out cold as a mackeral from hits, and I've seen fingers inadvertently raked across faces.
I'd rather see pro football remain as it is, but also see all school sponsorship of the sport ended. Let the adults who want to make a profession of the game go into it with their eyes wide open, not indoctrinated as impressionable young people. If the sport dies from lack of participation, so be it.
The talent well will dry up as parents keep kids out of the sport--- and that's how a sport dies.
Let it die. The trend for every decade I've been alive is that more brains are needed to survive in the workplace, not less. Not only are the jobs more skilled, there are more rules to follow--- you have to have the mental wherewithal to know when you can and cannot say "fucked her right in the pussy", to use one famous example. We don't need otherwise healthy people starting at a deficit because they placed some game during their developmental years.
Helmets also prevent injuries such as fish-hooking the mouth, ears being ripped off, teeth being knocked out, and eyes being gouged, not to mention incidental facial abrasions from being tackled on artificial turf. Playing helmetless would like decrease head to head collisions, but would do nothing for other body parts smashing into the head. A man being wrestled to the ground by multiple opponents is likely to catch a knee or elbow, or get slammed on his back, bashing his head into the turf. There is nothing resembling professional football that I would like to see a human being playing without a helmet.
F-14's, and they are from a single planet's defense industry. You'd expect a whole galaxy full of designers to come up with something better in 25+ years. When a beat-up freighter is both faster and more agile than your top-of-the-line fighters, then maybe killing all the aerospace engineers in a tiff wasn't such a great idea.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons Star Trek felt so wrong. Star Wars pacing and action pasted onto a franchise with callous disregard for pretty much everything. But Star Wars seems a much better fit for Abrams, since that's what he's always wanted to do.
You're kinda missing the point of asteroid mining. The idea is to gather useful materials up there and keep them up there to support a space based civilization. That way you can use and move the stuff around using energy efficient transfer orbits and modest amounts of delta-vee, instead of lifting mountains of material against Earth's gravity. A lot of high-tech from Earth will be needed to bootstrap early operations, but the goal would be a self supporting space-based society based on raw resources available in space, eventually trading with Earth-based societies.
I don't know how long developing such a society would take, but it'll likely be started by people nearly everyone else considers lunatics. Something like Mars One should be a rehearsal for later attempts at colonizing space itself, without a planet under your feet.
I've no comment on Watto, but the pod race was an obvious homage to the chariot race in Ben Hur. I guess they could have demonstrated Anakin's latent force ability in some other way that sold toys, like having him do a fakie 900 blindfolded on his hoverboard. But honestly, the pod race was no more contrived than the ridiculous scenario in Star Wars where they had to fly down this long trench to launch a couple of torpedos.
Well, you heard wrong. SpaceX has launched satellites and delivered cargo to the International Space Station. And to find this out all you had to do was go to their website and click on "NEWS".