Poutine is fine but in my opinion highly overrated. I've spent loads of time in Canada and I've seldom had poutine that was actually good. Mostly it's a cheap crappy thin gravy with some not very tasty cheese curd thrown in on top of some badly done fries. It's a dish that is WAY more popular than the taste should justify. I'm sure it can be done well but that's not what is usually sold.
The trick is usually to get the chopped smoked brisket on top, but really what you need to do to really enjoy poutine is get really, really drunk first.
If you want to terraform Mars right now, you first need to thicken the atmosphere by warming the polar caps. You then have lots of time protecting that atmosphere from solar wind.
Yes, but without this, you'll just immediately end up losing that atmosphere to space. This will probably be an addition to any Mars terraforming project as once we are capable to doing any sort of terraforming, such a space station will be fairly trivial part of such a project in either technology or cost. Even then, heating up the planet won't get Mars an atmosphere at human survivable pressures. That will still require importing or creating more gasses and that will be the main heavy lifting part of any martian terraforming mission.
.. what? We're talking about a plan to create a planet-sized magnetic shield. If we assume we can do that, then moving a few space rocks shouldn't be too hard?
Not quite. However, I did sit down and do the math one day. There is about 20% of needed material to give Mars a reasonably comfortable breathable atmosphere is already on the planet int eh form of ices. The rest could be provided by about 1000 comets about the size of Halley's comet. Assuming ideal delta-V requirements and that it is trivial to heat the material already on the planet, I figured out the energy requirements for getting those 1000 comets to Mars from nearby Oort cloud not too far past Pluto in 100 years. The end result was a number that was a fraction (about a third IIRC) of the total daily energy output of the sun. So basically to even begin, you need an infrastructure capable of capturing somewhere around a few tenths of a percent of the energy coming out of the sun with no losses for a hundred years. Given that, something like putting up solar mirrors to heat Mars or even create a magnetic shield for it at its L1 are trivial items probably written off in the Misc listing of the overall project budget.
Pretty good? Bart has a years long list for parking at most stations as well as being standing room only at the first stop. Caltrain might be ok if you live or work in the peninsula or the city, but if you can afford to live in those places you're probably commuting by private jet or helicoptor anyway - forget east or north bay. I've been to a lot of cities around the world and public transit in the bay area is hands down the worst I've ever seen.
Well, ya, compared to Europe or Asia it might be mediocre, but for the US it's one of the best we have. I live in Seattle and whenever somebody complains about the transit here, I can tell they are either from SF, NYC, or DC because those are about the only places in the US that are better.
The thing that always bothered me about that story is that I've known people who could not hit a moving human sized target even with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun, so how did she do it? It seemed obvious to me as a high school student reading this that the Handicapper General was not handicapped as much as some people. All handicapped are equal, but some handicapped are more equal than others.
You don't leave a 6 figure job because of "lack of confidence in management." You just don't.
Right. You use it to pad your resume and get a better 6 figure job. That other job may be better because it has more pay, works you less hours, a better team you get along with, or better long term prospects in stability or even better management. It all differs from person to person, and it will be easier to find a new job coming from a still functional company that has public reasons known for wanting to leave.
It may be technically possible to get to the Moon in three years, but it would take a truly massive investment to do so. I don't think that private entities exist that could put forward that kind of investment with little chance of return, and Republicans tend to balk at large spending increases unless they're military. I could see Trump wanting this due to his ego, but I don't think he could get congress on his side for this kind of massive endeavor.
My understanding is the ULA (Lockheed, Boeing, etc.) has tagged Blue Origin to provide the BE-4 engine to be their answer to a reusable vertical landing capable rocket engine the need to compete with SpaceX, and it is supposed to be ready to go in three years. That is still a bit behind similar SpaceX plans and my bet would be that their schedule will slip from planned but it's still anybodies guess how far. Blue Origin did start this rocket engine back in 2011, but didn't mention it publicly till 2014.
If I understand correctly, there are two sets of identical cards, so that whichever side the stage is entered-from, the relevant card can be handed to the presenter as they pass. This procedure is flawed. It does not automatically deprecate out a card when that card is used.
Not so quick. The duplicate cards are also part of their error correction in case something goes wrong with the cards. The reason why the woman also got fired is she was on the other side of the stage, knowing who the real winner was, also with a correct card. Her job was to notice the error, go to the stage, tell them the mistake, and give them the correct card (as the mistake could have been the wrong card in the correct envelope) before something really bad happens like the not-winners get on stage and give an acceptance speech. She didn't do this, which is why she was fired as well as the guy that handed out the wrong card.
>plugged the power cable into a USB slot because he wasn't paying attention
How??!
Probably the same way as my dad did when I was home for Christmas. Lots of USB charger adaptors have two ports on them, spaced just far enough that the blades of a power plug will fit in them, but not well or all the way. My dad struggled with that for a good five minutes trying to get it properly plugged in before I looked at it and told him what he was doing wrong.
It's common for Europeans to be able to speak 3 or more languages.
And odds are one of them will be English. More than once I've heard someone from France say "Does anybody speak English? I need to find out how to get where I want to go." on a German bus. English (not American) is the de facto language of travellers (and air traffic controllers) because chances are the country you are in has been invaded by the English at some time in history.
Funny enough, I started this one job and was given an account on the VAX system that handled all main applications plus internal email. When I went into the email list to read and write my personal email, it looked something like this:
Read Email
Send Email
Read Sent Email
Read Deleted Email
Delete All Email
Well, after a week or two, I had a bunch of email and no need to keep it, so I hit Delete All Email. What nobody told me was since I was an admin, that command meant ALL EMAIL, for EVERYBODY on the system, gone forever. Luckily, my new boss covered for me. A year or two later another newbie did the same thing, but thankfully, he only deleted a year or two of email.
"Elementary Chaos Theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.” – Professor Frink
The issue only arises if the video is required for a future trial. Hell, high-def video of what she looked like when the officers arrived on the scene might even be used as evidence IN HER FAVOR.
Depends on the local laws. Here in Seattle there was discussion on this topic because such video was public info and discoverable by Freedom of Information requests.
I thought/. was pro Trump since he was anti TPP and anti-H1B visas.
Trump will sometimes say things I agree with. However he usually fails any time he actually starts to say how he actually plans to do such things. Furthermore, I have yet to see anything from him that makes me think that he actually is basing what he says on any sort of logic and not just spouting what he thinks people want to hear. So far, he seems like the standard broken clock telling time correctly twice a day.
Salaries in isolation means nothing unless you're saving up for living somewhere else. Cost of living in NZ is relatively low.
Exactly, so that pretty much sees to say not to bother unless you are planning to move to and retire in NZ. That being said, I've known lots of people who want to move to NZ (and a few that have).
Border guards, and not just American ones, always ask questions to see if you can answer them and then grill you harder if you don't answer them convincingly. Even as a tourist, I've been asked what I plan to see or do in a country, or what was my favorite thing I did by such and if I didn't have an answer quickly coming, I'd get the third degree. Since then, I've always had some answers prepped or just whenever they give me a question I can go on about endlessly, I do because after the specifics of who you are, where you are going and for how long, they're just asking you a general personal question to see if you break under questioning. After 24 hours on a plane without any sleep, he was probably asked what he did and mumbled some answer. When they asked him a more detailed one he probably was fairly vague in his description. Eventually red flags get raised and he's past the threshold of getting through with even more questions. I bet if he'd earlier just started talking about something he knew alot about in a technical manner till they told him to shut up, that would have been the end of it and he could have gone on his way.
On the other hand I could sit down and discuss HDMI specification all day and night with border agents. They'd likely pass out from boredom.
I've found that this typically works as they are usually just asking you questions to see if you sweat or have trouble answering them. Even for tourists, they'll ask what you are really looking forward to seeing or what you really liked about your trip. I've found that if you already have something in mind and can just wax endlessly about it till they tell you 'that's enough', that that will also be the end of the interview and they'll let you go. I wouldn't be surprised if in earlier questioning, he was asked about what he did and gave vague answers where if he had gone on about something like HDMI specifications till they passed out from boredom, they wouldn't have made him take that test.
I really have question Wu's fitness for office for simply lacking the self-awareness to know that what she said makes her sound like a crackpot. "Vote for me. I'm crazy and I only care about edge issues that don't effect the vast majority of the district." Yes, that sounds like a good plan - not.
You've heard of a post-9/11 world? Well, now we're in a Post-Trump world. Illogical crazy with no bearing on reality sells and has been proven to be a possible winning method. Get ready for all sorts of people in the next election just spouting all sorts of crap to see if it will stick.
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If 'Stellar 7' qualified as pre wolf3d 3d shooter, then so did 'Battlezone'.
Hey! You're forgetting Duck Hunt!
Poutine is fine but in my opinion highly overrated. I've spent loads of time in Canada and I've seldom had poutine that was actually good. Mostly it's a cheap crappy thin gravy with some not very tasty cheese curd thrown in on top of some badly done fries. It's a dish that is WAY more popular than the taste should justify. I'm sure it can be done well but that's not what is usually sold.
The trick is usually to get the chopped smoked brisket on top, but really what you need to do to really enjoy poutine is get really, really drunk first.
Stuff that matters?? Really?
Pretty sure they saw the word "Azure" and thought it had to do with Microsoft's cloud.
"I'd go so far as to say 90% of everything is garbage."
But ... is Garbage garbage?
90% of it.
I agree that rap is fucking garbage. On the other hand, you also have to agree that western and country music are also fucking garbage.
I'd go so far as to say 90% of everything is garbage.
If you want to terraform Mars right now, you first need to thicken the atmosphere by warming the polar caps. You then have lots of time protecting that atmosphere from solar wind.
Yes, but without this, you'll just immediately end up losing that atmosphere to space. This will probably be an addition to any Mars terraforming project as once we are capable to doing any sort of terraforming, such a space station will be fairly trivial part of such a project in either technology or cost. Even then, heating up the planet won't get Mars an atmosphere at human survivable pressures. That will still require importing or creating more gasses and that will be the main heavy lifting part of any martian terraforming mission.
Not quite. However, I did sit down and do the math one day. There is about 20% of needed material to give Mars a reasonably comfortable breathable atmosphere is already on the planet int eh form of ices. The rest could be provided by about 1000 comets about the size of Halley's comet. Assuming ideal delta-V requirements and that it is trivial to heat the material already on the planet, I figured out the energy requirements for getting those 1000 comets to Mars from nearby Oort cloud not too far past Pluto in 100 years. The end result was a number that was a fraction (about a third IIRC) of the total daily energy output of the sun. So basically to even begin, you need an infrastructure capable of capturing somewhere around a few tenths of a percent of the energy coming out of the sun with no losses for a hundred years. Given that, something like putting up solar mirrors to heat Mars or even create a magnetic shield for it at its L1 are trivial items probably written off in the Misc listing of the overall project budget.
Pretty good? Bart has a years long list for parking at most stations as well as being standing room only at the first stop. Caltrain might be ok if you live or work in the peninsula or the city, but if you can afford to live in those places you're probably commuting by private jet or helicoptor anyway - forget east or north bay. I've been to a lot of cities around the world and public transit in the bay area is hands down the worst I've ever seen.
Well, ya, compared to Europe or Asia it might be mediocre, but for the US it's one of the best we have. I live in Seattle and whenever somebody complains about the transit here, I can tell they are either from SF, NYC, or DC because those are about the only places in the US that are better.
The thing that always bothered me about that story is that I've known people who could not hit a moving human sized target even with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun, so how did she do it? It seemed obvious to me as a high school student reading this that the Handicapper General was not handicapped as much as some people. All handicapped are equal, but some handicapped are more equal than others.
You don't leave a 6 figure job because of "lack of confidence in management." You just don't.
Right. You use it to pad your resume and get a better 6 figure job. That other job may be better because it has more pay, works you less hours, a better team you get along with, or better long term prospects in stability or even better management. It all differs from person to person, and it will be easier to find a new job coming from a still functional company that has public reasons known for wanting to leave.
This is why Imperial units got replaced, they are antiquated and make no sense in the 21st century.
Ya, base 2 systems have no place in the modern world.
It may be technically possible to get to the Moon in three years, but it would take a truly massive investment to do so. I don't think that private entities exist that could put forward that kind of investment with little chance of return, and Republicans tend to balk at large spending increases unless they're military. I could see Trump wanting this due to his ego, but I don't think he could get congress on his side for this kind of massive endeavor.
My understanding is the ULA (Lockheed, Boeing, etc.) has tagged Blue Origin to provide the BE-4 engine to be their answer to a reusable vertical landing capable rocket engine the need to compete with SpaceX, and it is supposed to be ready to go in three years. That is still a bit behind similar SpaceX plans and my bet would be that their schedule will slip from planned but it's still anybodies guess how far. Blue Origin did start this rocket engine back in 2011, but didn't mention it publicly till 2014.
Last I checked, Blue Origin was strictly suborbital right now. Do they really expect to go from suborbital to lunar surface in only three years???
Or are they planning on getting to Earth orbit atop someone else's boosters, and going the rest of the way on their own?
Yep. ULA has tagged them to build the BE-4 engine to allow them to compete with SpaceX.
"...because chances are the country you are in has been invaded by the English at some time in history."
Or will be invaded by the USA some time in the near future. :)
We're going to need to spend that increased military budget somehow.
If I understand correctly, there are two sets of identical cards, so that whichever side the stage is entered-from, the relevant card can be handed to the presenter as they pass. This procedure is flawed. It does not automatically deprecate out a card when that card is used.
Not so quick. The duplicate cards are also part of their error correction in case something goes wrong with the cards. The reason why the woman also got fired is she was on the other side of the stage, knowing who the real winner was, also with a correct card. Her job was to notice the error, go to the stage, tell them the mistake, and give them the correct card (as the mistake could have been the wrong card in the correct envelope) before something really bad happens like the not-winners get on stage and give an acceptance speech. She didn't do this, which is why she was fired as well as the guy that handed out the wrong card.
>plugged the power cable into a USB slot because he wasn't paying attention
How??!
Probably the same way as my dad did when I was home for Christmas. Lots of USB charger adaptors have two ports on them, spaced just far enough that the blades of a power plug will fit in them, but not well or all the way. My dad struggled with that for a good five minutes trying to get it properly plugged in before I looked at it and told him what he was doing wrong.
It's common for Europeans to be able to speak 3 or more languages.
And odds are one of them will be English. More than once I've heard someone from France say "Does anybody speak English? I need to find out how to get where I want to go." on a German bus. English (not American) is the de facto language of travellers (and air traffic controllers) because chances are the country you are in has been invaded by the English at some time in history.
Enter command: DELETE ALL SERVERS
Funny enough, I started this one job and was given an account on the VAX system that handled all main applications plus internal email. When I went into the email list to read and write my personal email, it looked something like this:
Read Email
Send Email
Read Sent Email
Read Deleted Email
Delete All Email
Well, after a week or two, I had a bunch of email and no need to keep it, so I hit Delete All Email. What nobody told me was since I was an admin, that command meant ALL EMAIL, for EVERYBODY on the system, gone forever. Luckily, my new boss covered for me. A year or two later another newbie did the same thing, but thankfully, he only deleted a year or two of email.
"Elementary Chaos Theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.” – Professor Frink
The issue only arises if the video is required for a future trial. Hell, high-def video of what she looked like when the officers arrived on the scene might even be used as evidence IN HER FAVOR.
Depends on the local laws. Here in Seattle there was discussion on this topic because such video was public info and discoverable by Freedom of Information requests.
I thought /. was pro Trump since he was anti TPP and anti-H1B visas.
Trump will sometimes say things I agree with. However he usually fails any time he actually starts to say how he actually plans to do such things. Furthermore, I have yet to see anything from him that makes me think that he actually is basing what he says on any sort of logic and not just spouting what he thinks people want to hear. So far, he seems like the standard broken clock telling time correctly twice a day.
Salaries are *low* in NZ.
Salaries in isolation means nothing unless you're saving up for living somewhere else. Cost of living in NZ is relatively low.
Exactly, so that pretty much sees to say not to bother unless you are planning to move to and retire in NZ. That being said, I've known lots of people who want to move to NZ (and a few that have).
Border guards, and not just American ones, always ask questions to see if you can answer them and then grill you harder if you don't answer them convincingly. Even as a tourist, I've been asked what I plan to see or do in a country, or what was my favorite thing I did by such and if I didn't have an answer quickly coming, I'd get the third degree. Since then, I've always had some answers prepped or just whenever they give me a question I can go on about endlessly, I do because after the specifics of who you are, where you are going and for how long, they're just asking you a general personal question to see if you break under questioning. After 24 hours on a plane without any sleep, he was probably asked what he did and mumbled some answer. When they asked him a more detailed one he probably was fairly vague in his description. Eventually red flags get raised and he's past the threshold of getting through with even more questions. I bet if he'd earlier just started talking about something he knew alot about in a technical manner till they told him to shut up, that would have been the end of it and he could have gone on his way.
On the other hand I could sit down and discuss HDMI specification all day and night with border agents. They'd likely pass out from boredom.
I've found that this typically works as they are usually just asking you questions to see if you sweat or have trouble answering them. Even for tourists, they'll ask what you are really looking forward to seeing or what you really liked about your trip. I've found that if you already have something in mind and can just wax endlessly about it till they tell you 'that's enough', that that will also be the end of the interview and they'll let you go. I wouldn't be surprised if in earlier questioning, he was asked about what he did and gave vague answers where if he had gone on about something like HDMI specifications till they passed out from boredom, they wouldn't have made him take that test.
I really have question Wu's fitness for office for simply lacking the self-awareness to know that what she said makes her sound like a crackpot. "Vote for me. I'm crazy and I only care about edge issues that don't effect the vast majority of the district." Yes, that sounds like a good plan - not.
You've heard of a post-9/11 world? Well, now we're in a Post-Trump world. Illogical crazy with no bearing on reality sells and has been proven to be a possible winning method. Get ready for all sorts of people in the next election just spouting all sorts of crap to see if it will stick.