The FAA has lost the only court case on this matter they've fought. Its hard to think they've got the force of the legal system behind them when the only thing its done for them is throw their fine out the window and tell them they can't fine people without providing some sort of option to be legal OR logical reason that its illegal.
If they were to revoke his private license, they'd be in one hell of a shit storm, you can't revoke licenses for unrelated things regardless of how much you want to twist it.
The FAA is not god, they don't rule the air, they regulate it, and they've been beat down already for being useless douches.
Just because Boeing wants to use the FAA to ensure that no one other than multi-billion dollar companies can create UAVs doesn't mean that it will actually work out that way.
Civ 5 had no Pitboss, then when they made Pitboss... it had to be logged into a steam account... so you can either play... or be the pit boss server and not play.
Civ 5 was 'revolutionary' in the sense that it took many steps backwards... but OMG HEX CELLS INSTEAD OS SQUARE!$!@#%!@#%
How the fuck can you play long term games that don't suck without a Pitboss server? Sure, play by email but holy fuck thats obnoxious to manage
You should read my whole post before you reply. Broadcom released the specs to a chip LIKE the one in the RPi, NOT the ACTUAL Pi.
The Pi was NEVER fast, it was ALWAYS crap and it just has a big following.
And just because you can run a few servers that do basically nothing... doesn't make it impressive. I can't say I've got a bit torrent client, but I can run FTP and Web servers, including SSL, on $5 micro controllers that will be more than happy to serve my personal requirements... and thats not impressive.
And I wasn't talking about running some network services... I specifically was talking about GRAPHICAL environments which you just completely ignore.
Reading comprehension is hard but you really should put more effort into it.
Yea, I've seen states where DUIs aren't treated that bad, I fail to understand it. It should be treated like attempted murder.
I wish there was a better way for cops to make FAIR calls on who should be spanked for driving drunk, something more objective than BAC. By the time I 'blow' over the limit, I'm fucking wasted. My wife on the other hand at least appears perfectly normal at the same level. I say appears because we haven't tried to drive at that point. We were part of a little demonstration the cops were doing when we were younger and we both knew better than to try. They gave us rides home, which was funny explaining to the neighbors.
Of course, I think most of America shouldn't be allowed to drive either, its messed up that here in NC, I've seen people get licenses for nothing more than showing up at the license office, seen the testers point at the CBT screen, point at the right answer and say 'is this the right one?' while nodding their head. I've only been licensed in Florida as well and its just as bad, though I didn't see them TELL someone the answers to the written test.
'God' didn't write the story, a man did, hence the story involves it being okay to gang rape some guys daughters as you put it.
You really shouldn't talk about stories you don't understand in the slightest. About the only thing god 'wrote' was the ten commandments, and even that story was... written by man saying god did it.
Its mind numbing that people like to try and tear religion apart with logic like you are, but you ignore the fact that parts you're picking on were tainted by man.
So do you include killer whales and dolphins, which have culture that is passed down using language for generations? They even have multiple languages depending on their primary geographic location. A pod in Antarctic waters speaks a different language than a pod in arctic waters. We're just now learning these things about them, but its clear as day now that we're paying attention.
The only thing humans really have over them is writing, which allows us much greater accuracy in our culture and science as it doesn't get modified over time by word of mouth.
Your Sundays would be better spent doing something productive or enjoying, rather than on some silly ceremony.
Just because you haven't found the ceremonies useful doesn't mean others don't.
While I'm no longer a 'religious' person, I was raised Catholic, was an Alter boy and all that. I found a great deal of wisdom in the sermons that I actually listened too. My father on the other hand, a devout Catholic all his life... didn't listen at all and I often found it interesting that problems between us in my teenage years were addressed by the priest in his sermons. I was able to have a better relationship with my father even though my father wasn't paying attention. MOST people weren't paying attention and for those, yes, it was more or less a waste of time.
The ceremony, when properly embraced, were very useful for getting my mind off what was outside and focused on what was being said during the sermon.
I don't know what I believe any more, but I do know that I received much wisdom from a much older and well traveled priest than all but a handful of school teachers or books.
You don't have to be a religious nut job to gain value from church services, you just have to be able to keep your mind open and pay attention. You don't have to believe it all. I don't. You just have to listen and consider the ideas put forth and take what good there is in them.
You can be sure that there are religious nut jobs in pretty much every church service, but in my experience, I've found that there are religious nut jobs that worship science based on faith in what other people of told them that they've never verified themselves... this is religion, not science. Obviously, you have to have some faith in the work of those before you or we'd never get anywhere, just retesting the same things over and over again, but thats a lot different.
My rambling point is that you would do yourself a favor to not be so close minded, and listen and consider what people say for what it is.
You do yourself a disservice (from what I can see in your slashdot posts) but writing off church services completely. They can have value if you bother to look for it and pay attention. Westbro Baptist church or whatever it was... probably not the place you should be listening too I admit and agree with completely, but not everyone at church is a crazy ass nut job.
Just try to be a little more open minded and a lot less condescending about those silly ceremonies.
Yes, its been working for as long as I can remember. Well, Chromium, but it works, I presume thats close enough for you.
Its slow as balls because Broadcom is a bunch of pricks who just recently released the specs for A DIFFERENT chip thats much like the one in the Raspberry Pi, so hardware acceleration for graphics was pretty much non-existent. Maybe sometime in 2016 we'll see an accelerated graphics stack and chrome won't suck on it, but you'll be able to buy an iPhone 5s off contract for less than the raspberrypi before it actually has usable graphics stack based on past experience.
You don't want to use a Raspberry Pi, its crappy hardware with a broken USB stack, shitty graphics stack due to Broadcom not making a driver or release the specs.
The Raspberry Pi is a utterly stupid design anyway. They took a video processor that had a neat little SLOW arm chip attached to do 'other things'... and then tried to turn it into a general purpose computer.
You know its a stupid design and the wrong implementation when the ARM core that you run Linux on... is not what it boots from. It boots the video core, then the software enables the ARM core and boots it.
For $10 more you can get a beagle bone black which is superior in every way... well, except it doesn't have the rabid fanboys that the RaspberryPi has.
I tried using the raspberry pi with chromium in kiosk mode to display a page with 6 Monitis (www.monitis.com, I don't work with them and don't recommend their service either really) charts on a single page. Since its mostly static and only refreshes every so often you'd think it wasn't that bad... but when you put it on a screen on the wall, not directly in your view... you still get drawn in by the fact that it'll start an update... draw part of the page... and pause... and then the next or rest.
The RaspberryPi is a pretty much never something you should actually choose. Its certainly not a $35 general purpose computer
A chromebook is just a computer, and not really any cheaper than an equivalent Windows machine (slightly, but not much).
A decent chrome book that 'isn't slow' will costs you $250 AT LEAST... and right next to it on the shelf is the Windows $250 laptop that... works exactly the same if you run everything in a browser like Chrome.
Oh, and the windows machine doesn't start off with you giving everything you have to Google.
Again I state, Phil has no idea what he's talking about.
Reality shows the exact opposite of what you're saying.
My wife is in research currently, and I was not to many years ago. You give them a number thats way low for cost, a number thats WAY high for return on investment, then... unforeseen things happen... inflation, unexpected difficulties (that you expected but didn't mention in the original proposal) and who can argue that those things don't happen... because you'll also run into actual things that you didn't expect that will raise the cost... and thats something we all know happens, so telling them no more money isn't really productive.
You're just wrong in every way in your post, the article that this thread is about is a demonstration of you being wrong. You know... since the government is, in fact, giving them more money!
This one is going to have a hard time with more money because its so far away and congressmen typically like to approve things that will put money in their home state, not in France's coffers.
... Well, considering the US is a MINOR partner, they aren't in charge of 'the plan', which... is costing EVERYONE on the project more money than expected... well with the exception of the few countries that didn't lie about the expected cost of front... which is pretty much SOP for science these days.
You can't show me any research project of any size building something that has never before been built that stays on budget.
The intentionally low ball it so they can get funding, then use the 'well, we've already thrown $XXX at it, which will be wasted if we don't throw another $XXX/2 at it... and then, repeat that in next years budget. There is also of course the lack of adjusting for inflation that drives the budget up. They price it in 1997 dollars when making the request... then start in 2008... even if they got the pricing right in 1997, inflation means its higher in 2008 for the same thing as 1997.
I've not gotten a ticket since I put mine on, after watching how my dad suddenly stopped getting tickets when he bought one of the stickers... sorry, donated to the order... mind you, my dad deserved the tickets.
All it takes is 3 or 4 speeding tickets in pretty much any state and you won't have a valid license, then the next ticket is typically an arrest... Some states allow more but not many and not much.
South Carolina is known for asshole cops who pull you over for 2 mph over the limit as you're slowing down from one speed zone to another.
No one buys you're 'by the book', you're just an asshole.
Its okay, I drive around your state now, so ha-ha you'll never give me ticket and you'll never get any of my money in tax revenue. Good job.
Funnest part was the last time I drove through that state (which I've never been ticketed in, only been with others when they get a ticket), I'm pretty sure you're highway patrolman were just too scared or lazy to bother to chase down the 3 car group going well over 100mph.
I don't actually speed anymore, I grew up and became a father, I just hate assholes like you who act all high and mighty when you're nothing more than a prick with power. Yet... never again will your state ever see any of my money. On the other hand, GA now gets me to stay in a hotel over night since I have to go around your shit hole of a state.
Go stick your head in a gas oven, turn it on and light it, or into a brick wall at high speed with your head laying on the airbag. ANYTHING to take your kind out of the gene pool. You aren't an honest cop, you're a prick. And no matter how many times I say it, its not enough.
One day maybe you'll realize why your state is so poor.
I was wondering about the religious slant (I'm a spiritual person myself, so I don't actually care if he is) because it really seemed like he was trying to say science was dead in preparation for something else... it FELT like a sidewinder attack by a religious nut job trying to push his agenda.
Both dark energy and dark matter are simply words used to describe a potential thing or potential process that fills in problems with the current understandings and theories. There may be some physical thing that fills in those properties, there may not be, it may turn out to be an error in current theories (admittedly unlikely), that once resolved will resolve the need for 'dark matter/energy' We really have NO idea.
Dark matter/energy is almost like saying 'god did it and flubs the numbers', or 'its a miracle!'.
All they discovered is that they were wrong. Now they are trying to figure out why.
Jon Stewart always impressed me for being a lefty that didn't seem to have a problem pointing out stupid lefty shit just like he did stupid right stuff.
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The FAA has lost the only court case on this matter they've fought. Its hard to think they've got the force of the legal system behind them when the only thing its done for them is throw their fine out the window and tell them they can't fine people without providing some sort of option to be legal OR logical reason that its illegal.
If they were to revoke his private license, they'd be in one hell of a shit storm, you can't revoke licenses for unrelated things regardless of how much you want to twist it.
The FAA is not god, they don't rule the air, they regulate it, and they've been beat down already for being useless douches.
Just because Boeing wants to use the FAA to ensure that no one other than multi-billion dollar companies can create UAVs doesn't mean that it will actually work out that way.
I won't.
Civ 5 had no Pitboss, then when they made Pitboss ... it had to be logged into a steam account ... so you can either play ... or be the pit boss server and not play.
Civ 5 was 'revolutionary' in the sense that it took many steps backwards ... but OMG HEX CELLS INSTEAD OS SQUARE!$!@#%!@#%
How the fuck can you play long term games that don't suck without a Pitboss server? Sure, play by email but holy fuck thats obnoxious to manage
You should read my whole post before you reply. Broadcom released the specs to a chip LIKE the one in the RPi, NOT the ACTUAL Pi.
The Pi was NEVER fast, it was ALWAYS crap and it just has a big following.
And just because you can run a few servers that do basically nothing ... doesn't make it impressive. I can't say I've got a bit torrent client, but I can run FTP and Web servers, including SSL, on $5 micro controllers that will be more than happy to serve my personal requirements ... and thats not impressive.
And I wasn't talking about running some network services ... I specifically was talking about GRAPHICAL environments which you just completely ignore.
Reading comprehension is hard but you really should put more effort into it.
Did you miss the 'decent' part of my post? The Acer is, like most Acer products ... crap.
Walmart is far more honorable than Amazon in pretty much every way.
Bezos and Ellison compete for biggest cheating asshole possible.
phone, more so than Google and even Facebook ... Amazon will do it.
Scummiest company on the planet.
Yea, I've seen states where DUIs aren't treated that bad, I fail to understand it. It should be treated like attempted murder.
I wish there was a better way for cops to make FAIR calls on who should be spanked for driving drunk, something more objective than BAC. By the time I 'blow' over the limit, I'm fucking wasted. My wife on the other hand at least appears perfectly normal at the same level. I say appears because we haven't tried to drive at that point. We were part of a little demonstration the cops were doing when we were younger and we both knew better than to try. They gave us rides home, which was funny explaining to the neighbors.
Of course, I think most of America shouldn't be allowed to drive either, its messed up that here in NC, I've seen people get licenses for nothing more than showing up at the license office, seen the testers point at the CBT screen, point at the right answer and say 'is this the right one?' while nodding their head. I've only been licensed in Florida as well and its just as bad, though I didn't see them TELL someone the answers to the written test.
'God' didn't write the story, a man did, hence the story involves it being okay to gang rape some guys daughters as you put it.
You really shouldn't talk about stories you don't understand in the slightest. About the only thing god 'wrote' was the ten commandments, and even that story was ... written by man saying god did it.
Its mind numbing that people like to try and tear religion apart with logic like you are, but you ignore the fact that parts you're picking on were tainted by man.
So do you include killer whales and dolphins, which have culture that is passed down using language for generations? They even have multiple languages depending on their primary geographic location. A pod in Antarctic waters speaks a different language than a pod in arctic waters. We're just now learning these things about them, but its clear as day now that we're paying attention.
The only thing humans really have over them is writing, which allows us much greater accuracy in our culture and science as it doesn't get modified over time by word of mouth.
this life is quite shitty
You either need to see a counselor or maybe have children, but first a counselor.
People who make statements like that almost universally a clinically depressed.
I really think you would do yourself a world of good to see someone.
Your Sundays would be better spent doing something productive or enjoying, rather than on some silly ceremony.
Just because you haven't found the ceremonies useful doesn't mean others don't.
While I'm no longer a 'religious' person, I was raised Catholic, was an Alter boy and all that. I found a great deal of wisdom in the sermons that I actually listened too. My father on the other hand, a devout Catholic all his life ... didn't listen at all and I often found it interesting that problems between us in my teenage years were addressed by the priest in his sermons. I was able to have a better relationship with my father even though my father wasn't paying attention. MOST people weren't paying attention and for those, yes, it was more or less a waste of time.
The ceremony, when properly embraced, were very useful for getting my mind off what was outside and focused on what was being said during the sermon.
I don't know what I believe any more, but I do know that I received much wisdom from a much older and well traveled priest than all but a handful of school teachers or books.
You don't have to be a religious nut job to gain value from church services, you just have to be able to keep your mind open and pay attention. You don't have to believe it all. I don't. You just have to listen and consider the ideas put forth and take what good there is in them.
You can be sure that there are religious nut jobs in pretty much every church service, but in my experience, I've found that there are religious nut jobs that worship science based on faith in what other people of told them that they've never verified themselves ... this is religion, not science. Obviously, you have to have some faith in the work of those before you or we'd never get anywhere, just retesting the same things over and over again, but thats a lot different.
My rambling point is that you would do yourself a favor to not be so close minded, and listen and consider what people say for what it is.
You do yourself a disservice (from what I can see in your slashdot posts) but writing off church services completely. They can have value if you bother to look for it and pay attention. Westbro Baptist church or whatever it was ... probably not the place you should be listening too I admit and agree with completely, but not everyone at church is a crazy ass nut job.
Just try to be a little more open minded and a lot less condescending about those silly ceremonies.
I know a few Google employes.
They give their kids chrome books.
They all have Macs, Linux as the primary OS, few use OSX, none use Windows.
Anyone you know at Google using a chrome book as their primary ... isn't doing anything important.
Yes, its been working for as long as I can remember. Well, Chromium, but it works, I presume thats close enough for you.
Its slow as balls because Broadcom is a bunch of pricks who just recently released the specs for A DIFFERENT chip thats much like the one in the Raspberry Pi, so hardware acceleration for graphics was pretty much non-existent. Maybe sometime in 2016 we'll see an accelerated graphics stack and chrome won't suck on it, but you'll be able to buy an iPhone 5s off contract for less than the raspberrypi before it actually has usable graphics stack based on past experience.
You don't want to use a Raspberry Pi, its crappy hardware with a broken USB stack, shitty graphics stack due to Broadcom not making a driver or release the specs.
The Raspberry Pi is a utterly stupid design anyway. They took a video processor that had a neat little SLOW arm chip attached to do 'other things' ... and then tried to turn it into a general purpose computer.
You know its a stupid design and the wrong implementation when the ARM core that you run Linux on ... is not what it boots from. It boots the video core, then the software enables the ARM core and boots it.
For $10 more you can get a beagle bone black which is superior in every way ... well, except it doesn't have the rabid fanboys that the RaspberryPi has.
I tried using the raspberry pi with chromium in kiosk mode to display a page with 6 Monitis (www.monitis.com, I don't work with them and don't recommend their service either really) charts on a single page. Since its mostly static and only refreshes every so often you'd think it wasn't that bad ... but when you put it on a screen on the wall, not directly in your view ... you still get drawn in by the fact that it'll start an update ... draw part of the page ... and pause ... and then the next or rest.
The RaspberryPi is a pretty much never something you should actually choose. Its certainly not a $35 general purpose computer
Phil is possibly a moron on top of it.
A chromebook is just a computer, and not really any cheaper than an equivalent Windows machine (slightly, but not much).
A decent chrome book that 'isn't slow' will costs you $250 AT LEAST ... and right next to it on the shelf is the Windows $250 laptop that ... works exactly the same if you run everything in a browser like Chrome.
Oh, and the windows machine doesn't start off with you giving everything you have to Google.
Again I state, Phil has no idea what he's talking about.
No, its nuclear physics ... which makes rocket science look like 3rd grade math.
Reality shows the exact opposite of what you're saying.
My wife is in research currently, and I was not to many years ago. You give them a number thats way low for cost, a number thats WAY high for return on investment, then ... unforeseen things happen ... inflation, unexpected difficulties (that you expected but didn't mention in the original proposal) and who can argue that those things don't happen ... because you'll also run into actual things that you didn't expect that will raise the cost ... and thats something we all know happens, so telling them no more money isn't really productive.
You're just wrong in every way in your post, the article that this thread is about is a demonstration of you being wrong. You know ... since the government is, in fact, giving them more money!
This one is going to have a hard time with more money because its so far away and congressmen typically like to approve things that will put money in their home state, not in France's coffers.
... Well, considering the US is a MINOR partner, they aren't in charge of 'the plan', which ... is costing EVERYONE on the project more money than expected ... well with the exception of the few countries that didn't lie about the expected cost of front ... which is pretty much SOP for science these days.
You can't show me any research project of any size building something that has never before been built that stays on budget.
The intentionally low ball it so they can get funding, then use the 'well, we've already thrown $XXX at it, which will be wasted if we don't throw another $XXX/2 at it ... and then, repeat that in next years budget. There is also of course the lack of adjusting for inflation that drives the budget up. They price it in 1997 dollars when making the request ... then start in 2008 ... even if they got the pricing right in 1997, inflation means its higher in 2008 for the same thing as 1997.
I've not gotten a ticket since I put mine on, after watching how my dad suddenly stopped getting tickets when he bought one of the stickers ... sorry, donated to the order ... mind you, my dad deserved the tickets.
When your body goes through a high speed accident that kills, many times the organs are too damaged to be used.
All it takes is 3 or 4 speeding tickets in pretty much any state and you won't have a valid license, then the next ticket is typically an arrest ... Some states allow more but not many and not much.
South Carolina is known for asshole cops who pull you over for 2 mph over the limit as you're slowing down from one speed zone to another.
No one buys you're 'by the book', you're just an asshole.
Its okay, I drive around your state now, so ha-ha you'll never give me ticket and you'll never get any of my money in tax revenue. Good job.
Funnest part was the last time I drove through that state (which I've never been ticketed in, only been with others when they get a ticket), I'm pretty sure you're highway patrolman were just too scared or lazy to bother to chase down the 3 car group going well over 100mph.
I don't actually speed anymore, I grew up and became a father, I just hate assholes like you who act all high and mighty when you're nothing more than a prick with power. Yet ... never again will your state ever see any of my money. On the other hand, GA now gets me to stay in a hotel over night since I have to go around your shit hole of a state.
Go stick your head in a gas oven, turn it on and light it, or into a brick wall at high speed with your head laying on the airbag. ANYTHING to take your kind out of the gene pool. You aren't an honest cop, you're a prick. And no matter how many times I say it, its not enough.
One day maybe you'll realize why your state is so poor.
I was wondering about the religious slant (I'm a spiritual person myself, so I don't actually care if he is) because it really seemed like he was trying to say science was dead in preparation for something else ... it FELT like a sidewinder attack by a religious nut job trying to push his agenda.
Please stop. There is no such thing.
Both dark energy and dark matter are simply words used to describe a potential thing or potential process that fills in problems with the current understandings and theories. There may be some physical thing that fills in those properties, there may not be, it may turn out to be an error in current theories (admittedly unlikely), that once resolved will resolve the need for 'dark matter/energy' We really have NO idea.
Dark matter/energy is almost like saying 'god did it and flubs the numbers', or 'its a miracle!'.
All they discovered is that they were wrong. Now they are trying to figure out why.
Jon Stewart always impressed me for being a lefty that didn't seem to have a problem pointing out stupid lefty shit just like he did stupid right stuff.
2000 messages a second isn't a fat pipe. You're just another shitty spammer.